David Cronenberg was originally set to direct but left over creative differences. While the director approached the project hoping to pay homage to author Philip K. Dick's writing, its producers fostered a divergent vision that Cronenberg described as "Raiders of the Lost Ark Go to Mars." In a 2003 conversation with WIRED, the filmmaker remembered an odd exchange with the writing team: "Eventually we got to a point where Ronald Shusett said, 'You know what you've done? You've done the Philip K. Dick version.' I said, 'Isn't that what we're supposed to be doing?'" Although the project shifted gears in a major way following Cronenberg's departure, he did leave behind a few creative concepts that survived in the version of Total Recall that hit theaters. Chief among them was the community of Martian mutants - among the movie's most memorable elements - including the major character Kuato.

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