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
While "Starship Troopers" may have solidified Paul Verhoeven's status as a cinematic satirist, and I unashamedly have a bias for "RoboCop" because it's set in my hometown of Detroit, "Total Recall" certainly ranks as one of the director's finest works. The 1990 science fiction action film is one of those ahead-of-its-time movies that force you to put on your thinking cap. Even after many watches, I'm still not sure if the plot is real or just one big exhilarating dream. The unorthodox movie is rivaled only by Verhoeven's unorthodox casting method.
In the movie, which is set in the year 2084, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Doug Quaid, a bored construction worker on Earth who yearns to travel to Mars. Quaid learns that he's a secret agent for the tyrannical government led by Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox) on the now-colonized planet; Quaid had willingly allowed his memory to be erased and taken a...
In the movie, which is set in the year 2084, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Doug Quaid, a bored construction worker on Earth who yearns to travel to Mars. Quaid learns that he's a secret agent for the tyrannical government led by Vilos Cohaagen (Ronny Cox) on the now-colonized planet; Quaid had willingly allowed his memory to be erased and taken a...
- 11/12/2022
- by J. Gabriel Ware
- Slash Film
A stalled New York City subway carriage serves as a toe-tapping musical Petri dish for six socioeconomically diverse souls in the unique stage-to-screen musical adaptation “Stuck.” Sharing a stylistic template with its 2016 left-coast cousin “La La Land” (which it predated Off-Broadway by a good four years), the film’s 2017 copyright suggests a missed opportunity for momentum that could be made up by the positive word-of-mouth (generated by the film’s fest-circuit delay) for a modest achievement that benefits from a lot of heart and not being like anything else out there.
“I bring a measure of grace to the world,” says Shakespeare-spouting homeless philosopher Lloyd, a dishevelled yet dignified Greek chorus who sets the stage in song: “It’s a common notion that the universe will shove together people who uniquely offer what the other needs.”
With that, the train on which he seems to live grinds to a halt.
“I bring a measure of grace to the world,” says Shakespeare-spouting homeless philosopher Lloyd, a dishevelled yet dignified Greek chorus who sets the stage in song: “It’s a common notion that the universe will shove together people who uniquely offer what the other needs.”
With that, the train on which he seems to live grinds to a halt.
- 4/18/2019
- by Eddie Cockrell
- Variety Film + TV
As BroadwayWorld reported earlier this week, casting is complete for the new Broadway production of the musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate, starring Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara as 'KateLilli Vanessi,' Tony Award nominee Will Chase as 'PetruchioFred Graham,' Corbin Bleu as 'LucentioBill Calhoun,' Terence Archie as 'Harrison Howell,' Mel Johnson Jr. as 'Harry TrevorBaptista,' James T. Lane as 'Paul,' Stephanie Styles as 'Lois LaneBianca,' Adrienne Walker as 'Hattie,' Lance Coadie Williams as 'Gangster Second Man' and John Pankow as 'Gangster First Man.'...
- 12/5/2018
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Casting is complete for the new Broadway production of the musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate, starring Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara as KateLilli Vanessi, Tony Award nominee Will Chase as PetruchioFred Graham, Corbin Bleu as LucentioBill Calhoun, Terence Archie as Harrison Howell, Mel Johnson Jr. as Harry TrevorBaptista, James T. Lane as Paul, Stephanie Styles as Lois LaneBianca, Adrienne Walker as Hattie, Lance Coadie Williams as Gangster Second Man and John Pankow as Gangster First Man.
- 12/4/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Algonquin Theater Productions and Jason Hewitt welcomeLindsay Nicole Chambers Lysistrata Jones, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Mel Johnson Jr. Jekyll amp Hyde, Hot Feet, The Lion King, Big Deal, The Rink, Eubie, On the Twentieth Century, and James Ludwig Spamalot, Little Shop of Horrors for the world premiere of On The Rails, a new musical with book by Tony Sportiello Second Chance, National Pastime, music and lyrics by Al Tapper Sessions, An Evening at the Carlyle, arrangements and musical direction by David Wolfson, and directed by Misti B. Wills In Search of Euphoria.
- 9/13/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Marvin Kaplan has died of natural causes at the age of 89. Between 1978 and 1985, Kaplan recurred as Mel's Diner regular Henry Beesmeyer on the CBS comedy Alice, starring Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon, and Polly Holliday. He also voiced Choo-Choo on Hanna-Barbera's Top Cat cartoon, which first ran on ABC in the 1961-62 television season.Kaplan played producer Dwight McGonigle on the show-within-a-show sitcom, On the Air, starring Ian Buchanan, Marla Rubinoff, Nancye Ferguson, Miguel Ferrer, Gary Grossman, and Mel Johnson, Jr. Despite its title, of the seven episodes shot, only three aired, before the show was cancelled by ABC in 1992.Read More…...
- 8/26/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Stars: Michael Citriniti, Rhonda Griffin, Mel Johnson Jr., Jacqueline Lovell, Tracie May, Jerry O’Donnell, Andrew Johnston | Written by Benjamin Carr | Directed by Charles Band
Not much more than a group of actors sat round in a Romanian castle (the very same one owned by Charles Band that featured in Castle Freak no doubt) talking trash to each other, with the occasional appearance by a group of deformed “creatures”… that is the plot of Hideous! in a nutshell. Although the official synopsis goes something like this: “Dr. Lorca, an eccentric collector of biological oddities, has just acquired his greatest specimen; a horrible mutant born of noxious waste… but the creature’s rightful owner wants it back. The collector’s clash is cut short though, as the sickening specimen comes to life, re-animating an angry, oozing little army of ferocious freaks.”
If you read my The Creeps review from a few...
Not much more than a group of actors sat round in a Romanian castle (the very same one owned by Charles Band that featured in Castle Freak no doubt) talking trash to each other, with the occasional appearance by a group of deformed “creatures”… that is the plot of Hideous! in a nutshell. Although the official synopsis goes something like this: “Dr. Lorca, an eccentric collector of biological oddities, has just acquired his greatest specimen; a horrible mutant born of noxious waste… but the creature’s rightful owner wants it back. The collector’s clash is cut short though, as the sickening specimen comes to life, re-animating an angry, oozing little army of ferocious freaks.”
If you read my The Creeps review from a few...
- 1/21/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
If you were brave enough to see the modern and serious remake of Total Recall on its opening weekend, then you will love our Total Recall Redux Drinking Game we came up with to help make it more… palatable? I am in no way condoning you sneak in a case of your favorite hard liquor but a lot of help is needed to make Total Recall go down smoothly. Let me remind you that this was Not on our 25 Films We Want to See in 2012. So don’t blame us if you didn’t like it. But it’s not unsalvageable!
Now yes, I realize I am asking you to see the film again, but it will be worth it if you get hammered and maybe you’ll eventually hallucinate all of the Mars stuff they decided to take out of the film. As we all know the 1990 original Recall,...
Now yes, I realize I am asking you to see the film again, but it will be worth it if you get hammered and maybe you’ll eventually hallucinate all of the Mars stuff they decided to take out of the film. As we all know the 1990 original Recall,...
- 8/6/2012
- by Ernie Estrella
- BuzzFocus.com
Danny Bolero Broadways In The Heights, Mel Johnson Jr. Broadways The Lion King, Hot Feet, The Rink, Beth McVey Broadways Beauty and the Beast, 42nd Street, Nine, Anita Welch Avenue Q National Tour, Tim Young Broadways Next To Normal and Ej Zimmerman Avenue Q National Tour will star in Riley Thomas subway tuner Stuck in the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Check out photos of the cast in rehearsal below...
- 7/4/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
I haven’t been keeping up with the Total Recall reboot updates since the initial announcement last summer, because, well, I really don’t care; besides, it’s not like there’ll be any black folks in it anyway, right? Certainly not in any of the starring roles; ok, so there was the mutant brotha in the original - Benny played by Mel Johnson Jr. – the cab driver that helps Arnie’s leading man Quaid escape trouble. Remember his now somewhat famous line… “Hey man, I’ve got five kids to feed!”
Anyway… so we know that Len Wiseman will be directing this reboot, and Colin Farrell has been cast in the role initially played by Arnie the Austrian Oak, as he was once known in his bodybuilding days.
But what about the 2 female leads, originated by Sharon Stone and Rachel Ticotin in the 1990 adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s work,...
Anyway… so we know that Len Wiseman will be directing this reboot, and Colin Farrell has been cast in the role initially played by Arnie the Austrian Oak, as he was once known in his bodybuilding days.
But what about the 2 female leads, originated by Sharon Stone and Rachel Ticotin in the 1990 adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s work,...
- 3/22/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.