Total Recall

Los Angeles: Carolco, 1987. Archive of 43 vintage reference photographs from the 1990 film, including still photographs, design and storyboard photographs, and digital prints.

Also included in a Final Draft script for the film dated August 22, 1989.

Includes:

- 9 color set design illustrations, struck as color photographs, on Fujichrome photo stock. 8 x 10 inches.

- 23 color reference photographs from the film on Fujichrome photo stock. 8 x 10 inches. With reference numbers on the verso of each in green manuscript marker.

- 2 color reference photographs from the film on Fujichrome photo stock. 8 x 10 inches. With reference numbers on the verso of each in green manuscript marker, along with a Carolco Studio stamp.

- 9 digital reference photographs on color office stock, all with Carolco Studio stamps on the recto

From the archive of a noted special effects designer. Full provenance available, as well as collation details.

Based on Philip K. Dick's 1966 short story "We Can Remember it for You Wholesale." A wild and violent ride, in the spirit of Paul Verhoeven's earlier release "Robocop" (1987), about a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that he is a secret agent with a memory chip implanted in his brain by the government. Nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Sound, Best Effects), and winner of the Academy's Special Achievement Award for visual effects.

Script:

Self wrappers, unbound. Title page present, dated August 22, 1989, noted as Final Script, with credits for Verhoeven and screenwriters Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Steven Pressfield, and Gary Goldman. 118 leaves, with last page of text numbered 117. Internal xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, unbound.

Photographs and set design illustrations:

Ranging in size from 11 x 8.5 inches to 7 x 5 inches. Fine.

Spicer US.

[Book #167966]