Halle Berry To Star In The Surrogate
Halle Berry is in negotiations to star in the thriller “The Surrogate” for 20th Century Fox – don’t be confused with Bruce Willis‘ “The Surrogates.”
Roderick and Bruce Taylor, who previously wrote Jodie Foster thriller “The Brave One,” have adapted the script from Kathryn Mackel’s book.
Director Paul Verhoeven is onboard to develop the project, which follows a couple as they hire a surrogate to carry their child. But all is not as it seems with the apparently perfect surrogate. In the book, dark secrets in her past come back to haunt them all (in a supernatural sense). The surrogate – the baby carrier is insane…
“The Surrogate” would mark Berry’s return to the big screen after having a baby last year. She hasn’t been in anything since 2007 when she starred in “Perfect Stranger” opposite Bruce Willis and “Things We Lost in the Fire.”
Berry would probably play the wife/mother but it would be interesting to see her as villainess – insane surrogate.
Columbia Set To Remake Total Recall
Remember the classic sci-fi film “Total Recall” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? The original came out in 1990. Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films banner are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia a contemporary version of “Total Recall,” movie directed by Paul Verhoeven.
The original film won an Oscar for best visual effects and was based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” The story followed a man (Schwarzenegger) haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars who buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air.
Carolco was behind the original movie, which was distributed by TriStar. Dimension picked up the rights for a reported $3.15 million with the aim of developing a sequel. Columbia secured the rights from Miramax, which retained them when Harvey and Bob Weinstein left to start their own company.
Calling Dick’s story “prescient,” Moritz said he hoped the advancements in technology and state-of-the-art visual effects can help tell the “Recall” story in a fresh way.
The original film made $261 million worldwide.
