Fox Finally Taking the 'Fantastic Voyage' ... with Paul Greengrass?
Filed under: Action, Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 20th Century Fox, Family Films, Remakes and Sequels
If this recent Variety report comes to fruition, then my interest in the long-gestating Fantastic Voyage remake has just been re-energized. Screenwriter Shane Salerno and a producer by the name of James Cameron are already at work on the project, and it seems to me that Mr. Greengrass would make a solid, if unexpected, fit.Best known for his two Bourne films (Supremacy and Ultimatum), United 93, and the recent Green Zone, Paul Greengrass is, as noted by Variety, a rather "gritty" director of action, so it certainly seems like a strange fit for the tech-heavy science fiction adventure -- but who ever said "strange" is a bad thing? Cameron's Lightstorm outfit will be focusing on the special effects and (yes) the 3-D presentation.
Fantastic Voyage is a nifty sci-fi flick from 1966 that dealt with a group of doctors and scientists who shrink down to microscopic size in an effort to save the life of a near-dead politician by traveling through his bloodstream and battling evil microbes and what-not. (My own generation would say it's "kinda like Innerspace.") Clearly it's high time I give Richard Fleischer's Oscar-winning medical thriller a fresh spin.
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4-01-2010 @ 12:13AM
Jerald Brewer said...
I'm actually old enough to remember FV (& the impure thoughts Raquel Welch stirred in my 8 year old...TMI) & thought it was pretty cool.
Greengrass is my favorite director working right now. He could be attached to "The Age Of Innocence 2" & I'd be excited...alright, no --nobody is that good.
Remember he was in preproduction with "Watchmen" a few ago so I'd love to see him take this project.
EXCEPT if he going to do this genre then Arthur C. Clarke's classic, "Childhood's End", is way loooong overdue.
(And to get rid of the internal-nauts or whatever they were called, Greengrass could send them to the stomach & go crazy with shaky cam to expel them.)
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4-01-2010 @ 9:53PM
Leon said...
Ummm, i really don't think Variety signed your petition.
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