This summer, Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release a new "Mind-Bending Edition" of Total Recall in order to coincide with the upcoming theatrical remake. Director Paul Verhoeven's graphically violent and darkly funny adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" stars Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator) as Doug Quaid, an average guy who is deeply unsatisfied with his normal life.
Despite having a good job and a loving wife (Sharon Stone, Basic Instinct), Quaid goes through his days dreaming of grand adventures, and he gets his chance to experience such desires when he visits Rekall, a corporation that specializes in custom memory implants.
However, during his programming session, something goes wrong, and Quaid finds himself launched into a world of intergalactic espionage, a world where Quaid can trust no one, where he alone can unite a rebel force against the villainous developer Cohaagen (Ronny Cox, RoboCop), and where all the answers seem to lie with an ancient Martian civilization.
While Lionsgate has yet to detail the technical specifications for the Mind-Bending Edition, the Blu-ray boasts a new, director-supervised transfer - taken from the original negative - as well as supplementary materials that include:
Commentary with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Paul Verhoeven
Interview with Paul Verhoeven
Behind-the-scenes featurettes: - Models and Skeletons: The Special Effects of Total Recall
- Imagining Total Recall
Photo gallery
Theatrical trailer
Total Recall: The Mind-Bending Edition streets on July 31st.
