David Cronenberg was set to direct and even wrote a few drafts of the script before Paul Verhoeven took over. ↑クローネンバーグ版か。安っぽそうな予感が・・。 Over 40 drafts of the script were written. Jeff Bridges, Patrick Swayze and Richard Dreyfuss were considered for the role of Quaid. In other drafts of the screenplay, Quaid was a mild-mannered accountant (instead of a construction worker). ↑ シュワルツネッガーの会計士役はさすがに無理がありそう。 Christopher Reeve was offered, but turned down, the role of Douglas Quaid.
During filming, Sharon Stone complained to Verhoeven that she wasn't sure whether her character really was married to Doug. ↑ 本当かな。まだ当時はB級女優だったシャロン・ストーン。最近もB級? Johnnycab whistles the Norwegian national anthem. ※国歌(national anthem) Doug Quaid signs into the hotel as "Brubaker", the name of the captain from Capricorn One (1978), a movie about a faked trip to Mars. ↑ 芸が細かいなあ。 References to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" include the annoyingly polite robot (Johnnycab), wrapping a towel around your head to avoid being found, and the triple-breasted whore. ↑ ひところ新潮文庫から出ていた記憶があるが、今は絶版のようだ。 ちょっと読んでみたい。 When Quaid is being shown the monitor in the implant room, some of the drawings scrolling by are concept drawings of the reactor on Mars.
Robert Picardo was voice of and facial model for the "Johnnycab" robot. When Quaid is dressed up as the fat lady, the passport he hands the guard is the actual passport of Priscilla Allen (who played the fat lady). ↑シュワルネッガーが入るくらいの大きさの人を探すのに苦労したらしい。 役名が「fat lady」というのが悲しい。 The subway scenes were filmed in the Mexico City subway system, specifically, the Insurgentes station of the Line 1: Constituyentes-Pantitlan. ↑ ネオ・ブルタリズムとかいうコンクリートを多用した建築様式が多いらしい。 地下鉄の駅などの印象的な建物は軍事学校だそうだ。 Some of the large ads seen after Quaid gets off the subway were real signs featured above the Insurgentes subway station in Mexico City, most noticeable the Fuji Film and Coca Cola signs, the Coca Cola sign still stands today ↑てっきり映画の「タイアップ」かと思った The original cut of the movie was given an X-rating by the MPAA for excessive violence. Some violence was trimmed and different camera angles were used in some of the more over the top scenes and the movie was then re-rated R. ↑ 元はもっと暴力的。 On the graph that Quaid is shown at Rekall, it appears that traveling by space shuttle has been getting more and more dangerous as time goes on! ↑ へー、こんなところまで見ている人がいるんだ。 The short story on which it was based was first optioned in 1974, 16 years before the film finally was released. Patrick Swayze was signed to play Quaid when the movie began preproduction in Australia before Dino De Laurentiis' company went bankrupt. After Arnold Schwarzenegger heard about this, he persuaded Carolco to buy the script for him. ↑ 数時間で決断したらしい。 Quaid's metal briefcase contains a worker's ID for the Pyramid Mines on Mars. All of the crew fell ill due to food poisoning during production, with the exception of Schwarzenegger because he always had his food catered from the U. S. ↑ 専用のコックがいたそう。 撮影現場からトイレがまた遠くてみんな大変だったらしい。 あと脚本家の一人も元気だった。歯磨きまでミネラルウオーターを使った。 The miniatures used for shots showing Martian geography were based on Martian photographs. One of the early versions of digital rendering of real-life objects was used in the scene where Quaid removes the fat lady mask. One of the heavily re-edited scenes to get an R-rating was the escalator shootout where Quaid uses a human body to shield himself from bullets. ↑ 今でも結構どぎつい。 Kurtwood Smith was offered the role of Richter, but he turned it down because he felt the role was too similar to his character in RoboCop (1987). Both the adaptation of the screenplay (written by Piers Anthony) and early drafts of the script had the main character's name as Douglas Quail. The original Philip K. Dick story has the name Quail as well. The film was being made during the Bush administration, with Dan Quayle as Vice President and it is presumed that this was the reason for the change. ↑ クエイル副大統領。いましたねえ。「ポテト」ってスペル出来なかった人。 During Quaid's Rekall orientation, a monitor momentarily shows an illustration of a green Martian from Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian novels. ↑ E・R・バロウズ、懐かしい。 The portable locator used by Michael Champion (Helm) was built by Casio. Marshall Bell had a full-body make-up for the Kuato scenes. The head of Kuato was fully animatronic. Bruce Beresford was hired to direct and began pre-production on the film until Dino De Laurentiis' company went bankrupt.
以下のトリビアはネタバレなので、見るにはマウスで反転を。
The final scene involving the mountain providing Mars with air was rejected by the initial producer Dino De Laurentiis because of cost. After De Laurentiis left the project due to financial difficulties, the new producers approved the idea.