The cast for the planned remake of Total Recall is coming together, with THR reporting Bill Nighy in talks to star, while Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale have finalised their deals and are definitely signed onto the movie, according to Collider.
Assuming Nighy’s deal concludes, he will play Quatto, the leader of the resistance. In the 1990 version of Total Recall, Kuato was a mutant growing out of the stomach of another man. It isn’t known if that will be true of the remake, but it was kind of fun first time around so let’s hope so.
Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale had been circling the two female leads since April. Biel will play Melina while Beckinsale is portraying Lori, the wife of Quaid (Colin Farrell). Ethan Hawke has already joined the cast for a cameo performance.
Len Wiseman is directing the remake, which ditches the Mars storyline from the original and is set in the warring nation-states of Euromerica and New Shanghai. Colin Farrell’s Quaid slowly realizes that he is actually a spy, although he isn’t sure of what side he is on.