Len Wiseman has Colin Farrell as his Quaid in the **Total Recall **remake, and has been busy seeking a couple of female leads.Now it would seem he’s also tracked down a villain for the piece, with Bryan Cranston negotiating to play Vilos Cohaagen.
Ronny Cox memorably brought the character to the screen in Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 action pic, as the brutal man in charge of a Mars colony threatening to slaughter the residents in his quest for power.
But the Heat Vision blog’s report mentions that Wiseman’s take will instead see Farrell’s Douglas Quaid as a factory worker in a nation state called Euromerica who begins to think he’s a spy – either for his homeland or for rivals New Shanghai. This time around, Cohaagen is the leader of Euromerica involved in a dastardly plot to invade the other country.
Cranston’s a great choice for the role and has been doing amazing work on US TV series Breaking Bad. If we had any criticism of recent Matthew McConaughey legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, it’s that Cranston was criminally underused in it.
Wiseman will kick off shooting In Canada this May, and the film will be out on August 22 next year.