Colin Farrell confirmed for Total Recall remake

Colin Farrell's attachment to the Total Recall remake has been rumoured for some time now, and producer Neal Moritz has finally confirmed the Irish actor is on board.

Talking to Collider, Moritz confirmed: "We're doing the movie with Colin Farrell." He went on to say: "We start shooting May 15th."

Thankfully, this is one project that won't be going multi-dimensional for the sake of it, with Moritz ruling it out: "We're not gonna do Recall in 3D, we decided that it would be too much."

Paul Verhoeven's 1990 Total Recall is an ultraviolent sci-fi classic, but that movie deviated quite far from We Can Remember It for You Wholesale , the Philip K. Dick short story on which it was based.

Moritz claimed the remake would have a different approach: "It's close to the book, the big difference is that we don't go to space..."

"It's a real world, a future world, where the cities have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up."

"It's just everything I see on the movie, every pre-vis I see on the movie, every conceptual drawing on this movie that I see just makes me more and more excited... it's a movie that I'm just dying to see."

The original adaptation played to Arnie's musclebound strengths, so it'll be interesting to see how the Quaid/Quail character will be portrayed with Farrell in the role.

Farrell has previous experience with Philip K. Dick adaptations, having starred in Minority Report for Steven Spielberg.

The actor has recently finished shooting another cult remake, Fright Night .

Matt Maytum is the former Editor of Total Film magazine. Over the past decade, Matt has worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.