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Total Recall
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
2012 · Directed by Len Wiseman · 118 min · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
What is real?
Crew
- Screenplay: Mark Bomback, Kurt Wimmer
- Cinematography: Paul Cameron
- Edited by: Christian Wagner
- Music: Harry Gregson-Williams
- Production design: Patrick Tatopoulos
- Produced by: Toby Jaffe, Neal H. Moritz, Paula Kucharski
Cast
- Colin Farrell as Douglas Quaid / Hauser
- Jessica Biel as Melina
- Kate Beckinsale as Lori Quaid
- Bill Nighy as Matthias
- John Cho as McClane
- Bryan Cranston as Cohaagen
- Dylan Smith as Hammond
- Cam Clarke as Terminal Announcer (voice)
- Bokeem Woodbine as Harry
- Will Yun Lee as Marek
Production
- Country: Canada, India, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Total Recall, Original Film, Rekall Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $125,000,000
- Box office: $198,800,000
- Themes: dystopia, secret agent, remake, machine gun, resistance fighter, false memory, robot cop, suppression, rebel hero, safe deposit box
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