Dynamite lands 'Total Recall' rights

Dynamite Entertainment has landed the rights to release comics based on science fiction property Total Recall.

The publisher acquired the licence from StudioCanal S.A. under an agreement negotiated by The Licensing Group Ltd.

"I am thrilled to announce that Dynamite has acquired the rights to Total Recall from StudioCanal," said Dynamite president Nick Barrucci.

"We will give this property the same tender care that we have given to so many of our other successful science fiction properties such as Battlestar Galactica, Stargate and Buck Rogers."

Based on the Philip K. Dick short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Total Recall originally appeared on cinemas in 1990, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Paul Verhoeven.

The story revolves around a construction worker named Quade who visits the Rekall company for a 'mind vacation' only to find that the procedure triggers suppressed memories, leading him to discover that he is really a freedom fighter from Mars.