Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Fantastic Voyage

2/7/11 – Variety reported that Shawn Levy has signed on to direct the James Cameron-produced Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century Fox.  Levy and Laeta Kalogridis are doing a rewrite of a script penned by Shane Salerno.  Voyage will focus on the film's love story and making the action less CG-reliant.  Script will be in development for at least another two months.

10/22/10 - Laeta Kalogridis is reuniting with James Cameron for Fantastic Voyage. Kalogridis has been tapped for rewrite duties on Fox's remake of the 1966 sci-fi classic that Cameron is producing, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Voyage revolves around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent in a miniature submarine inside the body of a scientist to save his life.  Cameron is producing with his Lightstorm Entertainment partner Jon Landau.

5/20/10 – Deadline reported that Paul Greengrass won't be directing Fantastic Voyage, the 3D remake being prepped by 20th Century Fox and producer James Cameron. Greengrass may be interested in Treasure Island, a stylized adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel that Sherlock Holmes producer Lionel Wigram is working on at Warner Bros. Greengrass hasn't locked into that project either.

4/1/10 - British director Paul Greengrass will direct Fantastic Voyage, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  He is in talks to direct Fox's remake of the 1966 sci-fi thriller, which is being produced by James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment.  The original Voyage, made during the Cold War, revolved around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent on a miniature submarine to save the life of a defecting Soviet scientist. The story then followed the biological adventures the team encounters in trying to save the scientist and themselves.  The new take hews closely to the original, minus the Cold War element, and will add snazzy up-to-date special effects and be delivered in 3D.

3/2/10 – SCI FI Wire reported that James Cameron said that the script for his proposed remake of the classic 1960s medical sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage is done and he is now looking for someone to direct.  "Fantastic Voyage, we're looking for a director," Cameron said. "Haven't set one yet."  Cameron will produce the new Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 sci-fi movie that starred Raquel Welch, about a team of scientists in a miniaturized submarine who navigate a human body to zap an inoperable blood clot.  Cameron said that he has updated the original, thanks to new medical information available. "Look, medical imaging has come an awful long way since the '60s, when the first film was made," Cameron said. "So we can do some pretty amazing stuff."

12/11/09 - James Cameron confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he will produce the new Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 sci-fi movie that starred Raquel Welch, about a team of scientists in a miniaturized submarine who navigate a human body to zap an inoperable tumor. "Well, we've been working on a script for Fantastic Voyage, but that's not for me to direct," Cameron said. "That's just a produced project, yeah. It's quite different. But it's got enough of the original story that you'll still recognize it."

06/16/07 - Roland Emmerich will direct a remake of the 1966 SF movie Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century Fox.  Voyage is about five scientists who are miniaturized and injected into the body of a fellow scientist who is dying of a blood clot.

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