Total Recall - Early Days An Alien In Hollywood

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00:14 – Robin and Harry introduce the topic of today’s episode, Rom Shusett’s Total Recall
03:28 – The decision to buy the rights to Philip K. Dick’s short story
10:00 – First steps to making Total Recall
11:34 – Dan O’Bannon’s involvement
12:54 – Challenges with Disney
17:29 – Meeting with famed producer, Dino De Laurentiis
19:47 – The unique deal that Ron made with Dino
24:01 – The issue with the credits
26:36 – Ron recalls visiting a ‘spiritualist’
30:08 – The number of directors that, at one point, worked on Total Recall
32:35 – Working with David Cronenberg
33:14 – Financial roadblocks
34:06 – From Richard Dreyfuss to Arnold Schwarzenegger
35:52 – Landing the star director, Paul Verhoeven

TWEETABLES

“Alien had changed everything, not just in the sci-fi horror genre. It raised the bar in quality special effects, excellence in story-telling and sheer cinematic terror. And, of course, it made Sigourney Weaver an overnight sensation.” (00:27)

“Nothing you can see will awe you when there’ve been so many special effects. You can’t thrill the audience any more than that, because you can never do anything more amazing than you’ve seen in other movies.” (15:04)

“I knew that I was never gonna make a deal unless Dino would give me a credit with him. I didn’t want it instead of him.” (24:54)

“All of a sudden, when I had nobody but Arnold [Schwarzenegger], he did back-to-back the first ‘Predator’ and ‘Twins.’ And he became number one box office in the world.” (35:25)

“And so between Arnold [Schwarzenegger] and [Paul] Verhoeven, well that’s ow the movie got made. I had the star and I had the director.” (36:34)

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5 episodes

00:14 – Robin and Harry introduce the topic of today’s episode, Rom Shusett’s Total Recall
03:28 – The decision to buy the rights to Philip K. Dick’s short story
10:00 – First steps to making Total Recall
11:34 – Dan O’Bannon’s involvement
12:54 – Challenges with Disney
17:29 – Meeting with famed producer, Dino De Laurentiis
19:47 – The unique deal that Ron made with Dino
24:01 – The issue with the credits
26:36 – Ron recalls visiting a ‘spiritualist’
30:08 – The number of directors that, at one point, worked on Total Recall
32:35 – Working with David Cronenberg
33:14 – Financial roadblocks
34:06 – From Richard Dreyfuss to Arnold Schwarzenegger
35:52 – Landing the star director, Paul Verhoeven