For the past couple of years it’s seemed as though the quickest way to get a green light in Hollywood has been to base your project on a hit flick or TV show from the 1980s. But the question has always been, what happens when that well runs dry?

We may be getting our first clue from today’s news about Columbia Studio’s plans to remake the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi hit Total Recall, which was originally released in 1990. That’s right kids, it’s time to break out the flannel because 90s retro is here.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman is in talks to direct the remake. Based on the Philip K. Dick story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, the original picture was directed by Paul Verhoeven.

The story, you’ll recall, is about a man who dreams of traveling to Mars, goes to Mars and ends up leading an insurrection in a Martian colony. It’s basically Arnie Goes To Mars.

OR DOES HE? The great thing about the movie was that, much like current blockbuster Inception, audiences had a tough time figuring out which part of the movie was “real” and which part was just a dream.

Scribe Kurt Wimmer is hard at work on the script as we speak, but no star is yet attached to the project. In addition to helming the last of the Die Hard flicks, Wiseman also wrote, directed and produced the Underworld series of vampire versus werewolf movies.

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