4: Total Recall - Early Days

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) LINKS MENTIONED Robin’s Website – http://www.robinmaxwell.com/ Robin’s Twitter – @TheRobinMaxwell https://twitter.com/therobinmaxwell 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Music by Vincent Covello and Vic Migenes Artwork by Barbara Mastej Listen to all episodes at AnAlienInHollwood.com Discover Robin's books at RobinMaxwell.com Listen to Harry as the host of Podcast Junkies 🎙️🎙️🎙️ Podcast Production by FullCast: https://fullcast.co Discover the best podcast services in the world at The Podosphere: https://www.thepodosphere.com/