Take a gander at your first official looks at two upcoming sci-fi films: Andrew Niccol’s “In Time” (previously “Now”, among other titles), and Colin Farrell in Len Wiseman’s remake of “Total Recall”, both courtesy of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.
Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried on the run in Niccol’s “In Time”:




Kurt Wimmer is no stranger to sci-fi, but unfortunately he can be real hit-and-miss. His 2002 movie “Equilibrium” (starring a then relatively unknown Christian Bale) oozed coolness out of every celluloid pore, but 2006′s “Ultraviolet” with Milla Jovovich was so indulgent as to be unwatchable. Fortunately for Wimmer, the heavy miss of “Ultraviolet” (which he wrote and directed) hasn’t stopped Columbia Pictures from tapping him to pen the remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi actioner “Total Recall”.
True to its name, 1984′s “The NeverEnding Story” didn’t end after the first Hollywood movie. It spawned two sequels and a TV show, but as far as I can tell, the story didn’t really make that much of an impact on the American consciousness. As a result, I’m sure most people just remember that the story was about a dopey kid and a big flying dog or something.
Total Recall, based on a story by Philip K. Dick called “We can remember it for you wholesale”, may be in for a remake, or as the kids like to say these days, a reboot, according to the Hollywood Reporter. I thought the original was a bit cheesy. Cheesy works in SciFi sometimes though as well we know. The original had a chick with three breasts as I recall. That’s quality work. Via