The first official shot from the Colin Farrell-led Total Recall reboot has been loaded up online.

A remake of the much-loved 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi, this new Total Recall uses the same Philip K Dick story ( We Can Remember It For You Wholesale ), but updates it for a modern audience.

Farrell plays factory worker Doug Quaid, who finds out that he’s really an undercover spy. But is he working for Euromerica or enemy New Shanghai?

This first image doesn’t exactly sell the remake as anything particularly noteworthy just yet, even if Farrell is pulling his best action man scowl.

If anything, it recalls the scene in the Arnie version when Quaid attempts to get through Mars’ security.

Hopefully the next pic from the film will reveal Bryan Cranston as Recall ’s villain. Now that really should be something.

See the full image below…

Total Recall opens 22 August 2012.

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Filming on the Total Recall reboot began in Toronto on Monday, and Bryan Cranston hasn’t wasted any time discussing how his character in the film will differ from the ’90s original.

The Breaking Bad actor is playing the villainous Vilos Cohaagen, who endeavours to take down Colin Farrell’s hero Quaid.

But don’t expect Cranston to play Cohaagen as a screaming, bile-filled baddie.

“I took a different path as you will see,” he says. “To me, to find [ Quaid ] and to capture him was about trying to restrain an unruly teenager of mine.

“I have no intention of causing him any long term damage, but he needs to be punished. He is being challenging like a teenager would be.

“That is my whole approach to it as opposed to the ‘I want him dead!’ kind of feeling.”

Total Recall is being directed by Len Wiseman, and opens in 2012.

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