While out promoting THE WAY BACK, Colin Farrell spoke to Collider about his involvement in the upcoming remakes of FRIGHT NIGHT, in which he will star as lead vampire Jerry Dandrige, and TOTAL RECALL, for which he was offered the lead role.
When pressed if he was starring in TOTAL RECALL, he responded, “I’d like to. I just don’t know. I’m not sure. I haven’t been home for Christmas. I haven’t made the required calls. I don’t know. I think, maybe.” No clear answer there yet, but he did express some excitement in the script:
“There’s a good bit of action. It kind of sits on the fence in a really good way. It kind of sticks to one half or the other. It’s clever and it’s well written. And there’s loads of action. I saw some of pre-visualizations already, that have been done for the world that they’re going to create and it’s wicked, man. It’s the first time in years where I went, ‘Wow, I could be part of that? In that frame?’ It’s gone back to the original.”
Regarding FRIGHT NIGHT, he had the following to say: “I didn’t want to like it when I read it. I really didn’t. ‘Cause I wanted to be able to go, ‘What? They’re remaking FRIGHT NIGHT… Hollywood.’ So I read it and I liked it. So fuck it, I’m going to go to work. And I’d seen LARS AND THE REAL GIRL and really liked that. The cast was incredible in it. So, entertainment. If it’s not that than it’s not, but it’s not in competition with the original. It doesn’t negate the existence of the original. The original is still around. It might find a new audience. If it’s not an hour and fifty minutes of entertainment then we screwed up.”
DreamWorks’ remake of 1985’s FRIGHT NIGHT comes from director Craig Gillespie. It’s scheduled to hit theaters on August 19th. Production on the redux of 1990’s TOTAL RECALL is scheduled to begin in March under the helm of UNDERWORLD director Len Wiseman.
UNDERWORLD star Kate Beckinsale
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