Here’s a shocker: Kate Beckinsale has now been offered one of the roles in her husband’s remake of Total Recall. The duo worked together on Underworld and Underworld: Evolution. In this remake of 1990 Paul Verhoeven‘s original she would step into Sharon Stone‘s shoes as the character of Lori. We reported the shortlist about a month ago and now we’ve learned Eva Mendes and Rosario Dawson are top contenders for the role of Melina, played by Rachel Ticotin in the original. [Deadline]

The thing preventing Beckinsale from joining is her current work on Underworld 4: New Dawn. With Total Recall set to go into production soon, we’ll have to see if they overlap. The film already has Bryan Cranston as our villain and Colin Farrell as our lead. Jessica Biel was previously rumored as a top contender, but it looks like that is no more.

Mark Bomback (Unstoppable), James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac), and Kurt Wimmer (Salt, Law Abiding Citizen) are credited with the screenplay that “involves nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai, with Douglas Quaid (Farrell) a factory worker in the latter who begins to believe he is a spy, although he doesn’t know for which side.” Cranston will play Vilos Cohaagen, “the leader of Euromerica who, under the cover of protecting his people, is secretly readying an invasion of New Shanghai.”

Total Recall will hit theaters August 3rd, 2012.

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