Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Journey to the Center of the Earth 2

10/15/10 - Vanessa Hudgens is in final negotiations to play the female lead in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Brad Peyton is on board to direct the New Line film, in which Josh Hutcherson is reprising his role as young explorer Sean Anderson. Dwayne Johnson is also starring in the picture.  The story finds Hutcherson and Johnson's characters forced to take a trip to a mythical and monstrous island to find his missing grandfather. The script is loosely based on Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island."  Hudgens plays a Pacific Islander who gets swept into the adventure and ends up falling for Hutcherson.

5/27/10 - Warner Bros. chairman and CEO Barry Meyer announced Journey to the Center of the Earth 2, release as September 23, 2011, the sequel to the family-friendly Brendan Frasier flick of 2008.

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