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A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.
Director: Len Wiseman
Writers: Kurt Wimmer (screenplay), Mark Bomback (screenplay), and 5 more credits »
Stars: Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine and Bryan Cranston | See full cast and crew
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Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doug Quaid, a construction worker who discovers that he is actually a secret agent formerly named Hauser, and travels to Mars to uncover his true identity and why his memory was erased.
Rachel Ticotin as Melina, a beautiful brunette woman seen as the partner in Quaid’s Rekall memory program who turns out to be a resistance fighter seeking to overthrow Cohaagen.
Sharon Stone as Lori Quaid, Quaid’s seemingly loving wife who is later also revealed to be an agent sent by Cohaagen to monitor Quaid. She is also either Richter’s girlfriend or wife.
Ronny Cox as Vilos Cohaagen, the ruthless governor of the Mars Colony and friend of Hauser who stops at nothing in the mining of turbinium ore which places innocent people at risk.
Michael Ironside as Richter, Cohaagen’s chief lieutenant. He is domineering, brutal, and has a seething hatred for Quaid stemming from a grudge against Quaid for sleeping with an undercover Lori. He ruthlessly tries to kill Quaid several times, despite Cohaagen’s orders to take him alive.
Mel Johnson, Jr. as Benny, a taxi driver and mutant on Mars Colony who befriends and later betrays Quaid and the mutants to Cohaagen.
Marshall Bell as George and as the voice of Kuato. George is a member of the resistance who has his brother Kuato, the resistance leader attached to his belly. Kuato helps Quaid unlock the secret to his past and the mystery of a reactor built by an ancient Martian civilization. Kuato has clairvoyant powers.
Roy Brocksmith as Dr. Edgemar, one of the developers of Rekall who also serves as its spokesman. Quaid executes him with a pistol upon discovering he is in league with Cohaagen.
Ray Baker as Bob McClane, a Rekall manager and sales agent who convinces Quaid to buy an “Ego Trip” memory implant.
Michael Champion as Helm, Richter’s acerbic right hand man.
Rosemary Dunsmore as Dr. Renata Lull, the lead memory programmer at Rekall who initiated Quaid’s memory implant procedure that triggered his outburst in the lab.
Robert Costanzo as Harry, Quaid’s workmate who is revealed to be an agent sent by Cohaagen to monitor Quaid on Earth and later had his neck snapped by Quaid when he and his henchmen tried to apprehend him.
Marc Alaimo as Everett, a Captain of the Mars Colony security force. He does not get along with Richter. Everett orders his men to arrest a disguised Quaid on Richter's orders, but Quaid escapes.
Lycia Naff as the Three-Breasted Woman.
Production and distribution
The original screenplay for Total Recall was written by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the writers of Alien, who had bought the rights to Philip K. Dick’s short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” while Dick was still alive. They were unable to find a backer for the project and it drifted into development hell, passing from studio to studio. In the mid-1980s, producer Dino De Laurentiis took on the project with Richard Dreyfuss attached to star. Patrick Swayze, who had recently starred in Dirty Dancing, was also considered for the role. David Cronenberg was attached to direct but wanted to cast William Hurt in the lead role. Cronenberg described his work on the project and eventual falling out with Shusett: “I worked on it for a year and did about 12 drafts. Eventually we got to a point where Ron Shusett said, ‘You know what you’ve done? You’ve done the Philip K. Dick version.’ I said, ‘Isn’t that what we're supposed to be doing?’ He said, ‘No, no, we want to do Raiders of the Lost Ark Go to Mars.’” When the adaptation of Dune flopped at the box office, De Laurentiis similarly lost enthusiasm for the project. Although he went uncredited in the final version of the film, Cronenberg originated the idea of mutants on Mars, including the character of Kuato (spelled Quato in his screenplay).
The collapse of De Laurentiis’s company provided an opening for Schwarzenegger, who had unsuccessfully approached the producer about starring in the film. He persuaded Carolco to buy the rights to the film for a comparatively cheap $3 million and negotiated a salary of $10–11 million (plus 15 percent of the profits) to star, with an unusually broad degree of control over the production. He obtained veto power over the producer, director, screenplay, co-stars and promotion. The first thing Schwarzenegger did was personally recruit Paul Verhoeven to direct the film, having been impressed by the Dutch director’s RoboCop (for which Schwarzenegger was considered for the title role). By this time the script had been through forty-two drafts but it still lacked a third act. Gary Goldman was therefore brought in by Paul Verhoeven to work with Ronald Shusett to develop the final draft of the screenplay. The director also brought in many of his collaborators on Robocop, including casting actor Ronny Cox as the main villain, cinematographer Jost Vacano, production designer William Sandell, and special effects designer Rob Bottin.
Much of the filming took place in Mexico City. The futuristic subway station and vehicles are actually part of the Mexican public transportation system, with the subway cars painted gray and television monitors added.
The film was initially given an X rating. Violence was trimmed and different camera angles were used in the over-the-top scenes for an R rating.[citation needed] It was one of the last major Hollywood blockbusters to make large-scale use of miniature effects rather than computer generated imagery. Five different companies were brought in to handle Total Recall’s effects. The only CGI sequence in the entire film was a 42-second sequence, produced by MetroLight Studios, showing the X-rayed skeletons of commuters and their concealed weapons. One year later, James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, also starring Schwarzenegger, prompted a revolution in special effects with its extensive use of CGI.
Academy Award Winning Special Visual Effects
When Dino De Laurentiis was still producer of Total Recall, he approached Rob Bottin, Designer and Creator of the groundbreaking special transformation effects forThe Howling and John Carpenter’s The Thing, because he felt Bottin’s outrageous special effects were unparalleled in the industry. De Laurentiis was aware directors had previously given Bottin unprecedented free reign to use his wild signature imagination to create never-before-seen fantastic fantasy characters and to showcase his creations in film sequences also envisioned and devised by Bottin. However, when De Laurentiis left the project almost another decade would pass before Director Paul Verhoeven invited Bottin back to work his special brand of magic on Total Recall.
Using the Goldman/Shusett draft as a launching point, Bottin invented phantasmagorical characters and sequences that previously did not exist in any drafts of the screenplay. For example: the Goldman/Shusett draft had Quaid eluding the villainous Richter and his henchman by wearing a prosthetic makeup to disguise Quaid’s true identity as he attempted boarding a transport to Mars. However, Richter sees through Quaid’s ruse, so Quaid rips off the disguise and keeps on running. Bottin told Verhoeven rather than repeating this old mask-removal trick seen many times in Mission Impossible (the 60’s TV Series), Bottin proposed that Quaid wear a “Fat Lady” disguise; a high-tech robotic mask that unexpectedly malfunctions and mechanically disassembles exposing Quaid’s identity to Richter. Verhoeven asked Bottin why Richter and his men don’t attack Quaid as the mask begins to malfunction. Thinking fast on his feet, Bottin replied, “Because Quaid’s mask quickly reassembles in his hands, he throws it at the bad guys, who catch it as it says, “Get ready for a big surprise!” then the mask blows-up… like a bomb!” Verhoeven loved Bottin’s outlandish idea so much he encouraged Bottin to continue dreaming up more fantastic effects sequence and fantasy characters to appear throughout the film. Bottin told Verhoeven about another missed opportunity. Kuato, as originally scripted by David Cronenberg, was only a tiny mouth hidden by the hair on the top of someone’s head. Bottin felt this approach was literally too small: an anticlimax, considering the mounting suspense created throughout the film fueled by Quaid’s dire need to find the mysterious leader of the rebel resistance. Bottin suggested to Verhoeven an unforgettable jaw-dropping character which would also appear by way of a much more operatic reveal. When Quaid demands to see the leader of the rebels, George (actor Marshall Bell) moves to open a door, stops, unexpectedly opens his vest and turns back to Quaid, walking in a trance-like state, exposing Kuato, his psychic baby-like parasitic Siamese twin growing out of his stomach. Bottin’s Kuato was a fully articulated animatronic character capable of performing intricate life-like movements, facial expressions and lip-synced dialogue, all of which was operated by 15 movement experts choreographed live, on-set by Bottin himself. Beyond these memorable characters, Bottin and his crew also created the Johnny Cab Robot, The Three-breasted Woman, all the gore-effects, all the Total Recall Mutants as well as life-like animatronic Arnold Schwarzenegger replicas that appear seamlessly.
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