The adaptation of the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick was originally planned as a sequel to Atto di forza (1990) by the writers of the Total Recall movie, Ronald Shusett and Gary Goldman (later joined by Robert Goethals). The setting was changed to Mars with the Precogs being people mutated by the Martian atmosphere, as established in the first film. The main character was also changed to Douglas Quaid, the man played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The project eventually fell apart due to Carolco's bankruptcy (after, in an attempt to save itself financially, the indebted studio chose to produce the pirate adventure and huge box office bomb Corsari (1995) instead of this and Paul Verhoeven's "Crusade", a bloody war adventure and satire of the medieval Catholic church starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlton Heston as the warmongering Pope) but the writers, who still owned the rights to the original story, rewrote the script, removing the elements from "Total Recall". This script was eventually tossed out when writer Jon Cohen was hired in 1997 to start the project over from scratch. The only original element from the early script which made it to the final film is the sequence in the car factory, an idea that Steven Spielberg loved. This led to the original writers suing for the right to have their name in the film's credits as co-writers. Due to the extremely strict rules of the writers' guild about how much of the script must be written by a person to get the writing credit, the final ruling was that the original writers can only get the executive producer credit, and not the writing credit, which they begrudgingly agreed to.

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