Back from the Underworld, Kate Beckinsale now plays this hot loving wife
named Lori and has turned out to be a killer for the movie "Total
Recall". Now I wouldn't mind if we were on our honeymoon and after the
deed she would go and have her way with me. Either slitting my throat,
strangling me or shooting me on the head.
In the movie, Rekall is a futuristic company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell),
even though he's got a beautiful wife (Beckinsale) who he loves, the
mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life -
real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But
when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
Finding himself on the run from the police, Quaid teams up with a
rebel fighter Melina (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground
resistance (Bill Nighy). The line between fantasy and reality gets
blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid
discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.
The film is directed
by Len Wiseman, Beckinsale’s real-life husband of seven years. The two
previously worked together on the “Underworld” films.
Beckinsale said she was particularly attracted to this project because of the role’s duality. "I've never played a bad guy before. I've always been on the side of truth and justice,” she says. “But the thing is, my character thinks she is on the side of truth and justice. That’s the great thing about this movie – you never know who’s on the right side. Also, there's a slightly maniacal side of her – she's slightly out of control, and that's always fun for an actor to play.
“It was nice to not have to worry about whether the audience was on my side,” continues Beckinsale. “Also, the villain rarely has to be responsible for exposition and the plot. The villain really doesn’t have to do that, so you can really just kind of immerse yourself in her mood and her character and her motives, and it was kind of a treat.
The script originally called for a blond character, but Wiseman thought it made more sense to cast someone who resembled Melina, Quaid’s true love. “My idea was to set him up with a fake wife that has some real similarities to his real love,” he explains. “If that surface memory is coming back, it makes sense for her to have a vague, familiar vibe about her.”
“The female roles in the film required women who not only were likable and attractive but could actually be physical,” says producer Neal H. Moritz. “And Jessica Biel can fight like the devil and Kate Beckinsale can probably beat the devil. So the two of them, you know, in these sequences of having to be physical throughout the whole movie, were incredible.”
Check out the trailer below.
Opening across the Philippines on August 22, “Total Recall” is distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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