Wiseman “Close To Handing Over” Total Recall Cut.

It feels like just yesterday we watched the first, raw cuts from Len Wiseman’s upcoming re-boot, Total Recall. So we were surprised to hear he’s almost finished editing the first director’s cut.
 
“I'm very close to handing over my cut. It's going really well,” Wiseman told Coming Soon. "The combination of mystery and emotion and action, it's coming together. Colin [Farrell] is a large part of that and I'm really happy with him."
 
Despite suffering no difficulties in coaxing the best out of his leading man, it wasn’t always plain sailing: "I think the complexity of the dual stories was the most surprising and challenging thing.”
 
"When you see Total Recall, the [Paul] Verhoeven film, you experience it, it's finished. When you're involved in diving into the material again and going back into the Philip K. Dick story, you realise there is so much to be discussed about the dual stories.” 
 
“There's the reality story and there's the fantasy element. They're running parallel together, so you always have to keep those two alive. That's the inherent nature of the concept and what makes the concept so cool,” Wiseman adds.
 
We’ve always thought so too, Len. If you’re not already au-fait with the premise, Total Recall revolves around the story of Doug Quaid/Hauser, a factory worker who suspects he may be a spy for one of the two nation states, Euromerica and New Shanghai – he’s just got to work out which. 
 
Total Recall stars Colin Farrell as Doug Quaid, Bryan Cranston as Vilos Cohaggen, Jessica Biel as Melina and Kate Beckinsale as love interest, Lori.
 
Total Recall hits UK cinemas from 22 August 2012.