Over 40 drafts of the script had already been written when Paul Verhoeven agreed to read the screenplay. Some of them depicted Quaid as a mild-mannered accountant instead of a construction worker. Most scripts had a similar first half, such as Quaid visits Rekall and starts having altered memories, but they all varied widely in the ending. One of them even had Quaid discover that he was really an alien in human disguise. This twist may have been inspired by another Philip K. Dick short story that was later filmed as Impostor (2001). Verhoeven finally brought in Gary Goldman for additional work on the script. According to Verhoeven, although there were many changes made to each of the scripts, the final draft was very similar to the first draft by Ronald Shusett.

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