TOTAL RECALL (Director Updates)

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Colin Farell in Total Recall

Len Wiseman did a bit of press for the release of hisfilm Underworld Awakening.During some discussions the director gave an update on Total Recall.



Here is what he had to say:

"I'mvery close to handing over my cut. It's going really well," he said. "Thecombination of mystery and emotion and action, it's coming together. Colin[Farrell] is a large part of that and I'm really happy with him."



Wiseman went on to express the most complicated and, asa director taking on the material, most surprising aspect of thesci-fi/thriller.



"Ithink the complexity of the dual stories was the most surprising andchallenging thing," he said. "When you see Total Recall, the [Paul]Verhoeven film you experience it, it's finished. When you're involved in divinginto the material again and going back into the Philip K. Dick story, yourealize there is so much to be discussed about the dual stories. There's thereality story and there's the fantasy element. They're running paralleltogether, so you always have to keep those two alive. That's the inherentnature of the concept and what makes the concept so cool."



"I will say, at the same time, this made all of the conversation Ihad with my cast fun," Wiseman added. "Every little detail has to apply to bothscenarios. My actors would ask, 'So, in this scene, am I - because I know thatI'm lying, because I'm the double agent - how well do I act? It sounds like asilly question, but do you want the other character to see through that or am Iso good as a double agent that you would never suspect I'm the best buddy orthe wife.' It's all of those little things. So, that's my long way of sayingthe dual nature of the story was the best thing about this."



Total Recall stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale,Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho and Bill Nighy.