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In the 1990 sci-fi action film "Total Recall," Arnold Schwarzenegger -- as a doctor foreshadows in the movie -- gets the girl, kills the bad guys, and saves the entire planet. Not only did the former California governor save the day in the movie, it seems he may've also helped save the film's entire production. "He's the soul of the movie," Paul Verhoeven, the director of "Total Recall," told The Ringer in 2020. "Before shooting, during shooting, and after shooting."
In the movie, which is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick and set in 2084, Schwarzenegger plays Doug Quaid, a construction work on Earth who learns he's a top secret agent for a tyrannical government on the now-colonized Mars. He later discovers his real name is Carl Hauser and that he and his boss, Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox), erased his memory in order to give him a new identity as...
In the movie, which is based on a short story by Philip K. Dick and set in 2084, Schwarzenegger plays Doug Quaid, a construction work on Earth who learns he's a top secret agent for a tyrannical government on the now-colonized Mars. He later discovers his real name is Carl Hauser and that he and his boss, Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox), erased his memory in order to give him a new identity as...
- 11/12/2022
- by J. Gabriel Ware
- Slash Film
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