Total Recall (1990) Vs. Total Recall (2012)

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Originally Posted by BluRayTim

1990 hands down. Colin Farrell is too skinny to convincingly play such an action hero, though he is 5’ 11” and 180 pounds, making him only three inches shorter but 115 pounds lighter than Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is very muscular.

Quaid wasn't supposed to be a big muscular action hero. The story was about an everyman in an extraordinary situation. Richard Dreyfuss was going to be initially cast when the film adaptation was first being developed.