Casting news is ramping up for the reworking of the Paul Verhoeven/Arnie exercise in restraint and subtlety that was Total Recall. As you’ll know if you’ve been following our posts to date on the Colin Farrell-starring new version, TR 2.0 will eschew the Martian plot of the original film (and Philip K. Dick’s source novel, “We can remember it for you, wholesale”) and give us a story about a factory worker (Farrell) who believes that he is a spy in the ongoing and escalating disputes between Euromerica and New Shanghai.
As we told you a couple of days ago, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel have joined the cast in advance of the commencement of shooting next week and now we hear that Bill Nighy (Love, Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Shaun of the Dead) is in talks to sign on as Quatto. Those of you familiar with the original will recall that Kuato (as he was then spelled) was the leader of the resistance on Mars and was actually a fairly ordinary guy, just with a mutant wrinkly baby thing growing out of his torso, who encouraged Arnie’s Quaid to open his mind.
It seems that Quatto will be the leader of the resistance this time around too, though quite how you have a resistance with two evenly matched superpowers duking it out is beyond me. No doubt it will all make sense in the end. Nighy is “in negotiations”, as they say. We’ll let you know as soon as we know.
Source: THR.
