Rumors of James Cameron’s next project have been sweeping the web the last few days, with most point pointing towards a Seven Samurai type film involving aliens called Doomsday Protocol, but it turns out the “Sci-Fi event film” is something else entirely- a remake of Fantastic Voyage.
Fantastic Voyage is of course the 1966 Richard Fleischer film about a crew taking a miniaturized trip through a human body. The original is a cold-war film, with the journey taking place inside a defecting iron-curtain scientist.
It was only a matter of time until the evolution of CGI birthed a new wave of tiny people films, though my money was on a Honey, I Shrunk The Kids remake first. The film will be written by Cameron’s reported collaborator Shane Salerno (AVP), who pitched the aforementioned Doomsday Protocol to Fox last year (which sent this buzz in the wrong direction).
As Cameron weaves through extensive Avatar publicity over the next week, expect more info to come out- he’ll be inundated with questions for sure.
Source | Production Weekly
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Interesting. A newspaper owned by Fox is calling the most expensive Fox movie ever a masterpiece.
LOL. The Scum's reviews are so on the money as well, and not at all pandering to the populist market. Nicks 'I love blue people' tweet has been the first indication to me that it may not be totally arse.
I have a friend who reviews for a local paper and he saw Avatar today. Said it was a masterpiece as well and that 90% of the critics there thought the same thing. I, for one, cannot wait!!!!!
He seems to be choosing projects that make full use of 3d tech. Fair enough.
As for Avatar, I saw an extended scene in 3d in japan (it was playing before Up) and my jaw fell off.
Good to read avatar's not shitty across the web. I knew it'd be at least decent. If any girls reading this site want to go see the movie with me, don't hesitate to reply. We'll go see this new james cameron shit to i guess…
Fantastic Voyage sounds like a step backwards for Cam'ron. Going inside a human body does not sound very interesting anymore. That was cool back in the seventies but boring now. Specially after Avatar. Reach further man, Battle Angel or Seven Space Samurais sounds a lot more exiting and more demanding too.
How 'bout a big-screen LAND OF THE GIANTS (the Irwin Allen series.)
No matter how good it is, Devin's already made up his mind about the movie. He's going to hate it regardless…
Wasn't JC associated with a Fantasitic Voyage movie ages ago? Sounds awfully familiar. — Avaturd: So if Critics had hated Avatar they would've been wrong, wrong, wrong – but because they like it and call it a masterpiece, they're right, right, right? @#4: Photos of your bloody, severed mandible or it didn't happen.
Vagtastic is right. Cameron and Voyage is a really old story. Is Voyage a Fox title? I thought the secret project was going to be Forbidden Planet. He's got a hold of that too.
We already got a remake of Fantastic Voyage, it was Innerspace, and it was awesome! Cameron, try something different again. maybe something darker. And preferably, something not with Fox.
I'll wait for Devin's review. Nick's review means nothing. The guy would suck Jan de Bont's cock if he thought it would get his movie ma………….nevermind.
I want to see Meg just from the concept art, although it could be totally Ice Spiders. Nobody else has mentioned Dances with Smurfs? The only shrinky-dink muthertrucker I want to see is Ant-man.
Forbidden Planet is The Tempest, what if they resourced the source material?
The topic at hand is Battle-Angel-or-Forbidden-Planet-or-Fantastic-Voyage didn't you buy up all the Image properties once?
You haven't even seen Avatar yet and after so many missing years you want news of more before you've even seen it.
Wow, you guys are excited, I hope it lives up to your expectations.
He's making it based on a script by the hack writer of AVP: Requiem and Armageddon?
The only reason you Moron's think Avatar was going to be shitty is because I, Devin, had written several articles bashing this movie before I ever even gave it a chance. That is because I am a real movie critic, and Cameron wouldn't let me fart his cum out of my ass back into his mouth and then snowball with me.
I suck at reviewing movies.
sounds like another gigantic moneypit.. james cameron is all over it..
IS that the real Devin who posted comment #15? If so, then he seems to be taking some inspiration from Harry Knowles and Mr. Knowles review of Blade 2, which amounted to about 2 pages of porn. Sad, I say. It's only a movie. And I think at this point they shot themselves in the foot a little bit with the whole "it will fuck your eyeballs and change cinema forever" bullshit. I mean, I think it will be a good movie, but I don't think it will change cinema for all time. After all, saw at McDonalds today that there are a Avatar toys and happy meals and shit. Seems they're doing that part NO DIFFERENT than any other blockbuster, Titanic excepted.
Although it would have been interesting to see them do Titanic Happy Meals.
"Get your Kate and Leo action figures from the highest grossing film of ALL TIME! Marvel as Leo draws Kate naked! Note: all Kate figures come with detachable sequinned dresses. May contain small parts. Keep out of reach of children under the age of 2 and a half. While supplies last!"
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