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Academy Award Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects) 1991 · Winner
Academy Award Sound 1991 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Achievement in Special Visual Effects 1991 · Nominated
Academy Award Sound Effects Editing 1991 · Nominated
Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing. Stephen Hunter Flick. 1991 Winner Special Achievement Award. Eric Brevig. Rob Bottin. Tim McGovern. Alex Funke. For visual effects. Runners up, not nominees: Back to the Future Part III (1990), Dick Tracy (1990), Ghost (1990).
Box office. $261.4 million. Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, and Gary Goldman. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside. Based on the 1966 short story "We Can Remember It for You ...
Total Recall: Directed by Paul Verhoeven. With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox. When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
- Paul Verhoeven
- 1 min
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- THE MOVIE WAS IN DEVELOPMENT FOR OVER A DECADE. In 1976, fledgling screenwriters Ronald Shusett and Dan O’Bannon teamed up to adapt Philip K. Dick’s short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.”
- TOTAL RECALL ALMOST COST THE WORLD THE FLY. Even after Shusett and O’Bannon’s script found a patron in power producer Dino De Laurentiis, setbacks persisted as finding the right director proved challenging.
- CRONENBERG’S VERSION WAS CONSIDERED TOO FAITHFUL TO THE STORY. As the story always goes, “creative differences” prompted Cronenberg to jump ship on Total Recall.
- SOME OF CRONENBERG’S CREATIONS REMAIN IN THE FINAL CUT. Although the project shifted gears in a major way following Cronenberg’s departure, he did leave behind a few creative concepts that survived in the version of Total Recall that hit theaters.
Jun 1, 1990 · Roger Ebert praises the performance of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the visual splendor of the futuristic Mars in this sci-fi action film. He also criticizes the scientific implausibility and the lack of originality of the plot, based on a story by Philip K. Dick.
Biggest of all, most expensive and most profitable, was Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall. Though Total Recall went into production nearly a decade after Dick's death, the property had been optioned as early as 1974 by little-known screenwriter Ronald Shusett, whose claim to anything resembling fame at the time was a story credit on the Cinerama ...
