The Fantastic Voyage by Roland Emmerich! (REMAKE)

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Emmerich to captain 'Voyage'

Sci-fi guy embarks on redo

By MICHAEL FLEMING




http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970307.html?categoryid=13&cs=1#talkback

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Helmer Roland Emmerich is boarding a remake of the 1966 sci-fi pic "Fantastic Voyage" for 20th Century Fox.

"National Treasure" scribes Marianne and Cormac Wibberley are in talks to write the script.
"Voyage" is about a scientist who is dying of a blood clot. His only chance for survival is for five scientist colleagues to be miniaturized in a ship, and injected into his bloodstream.
The original, directed by Richard Fleischer, starred Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence.
Emmerich's Centropolis Entertainment partner Michael Wimer will produce with James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment.
It is Emmerich's second tour of duty on the project, after being attached a decade ago. The Wibberleys recently took a stab at a draft of "Voyage" that sparked the director's renewed interest in doing the remake.
"Fantastic Voyage" is the director's third large-scale film for Fox, after "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow."
Emmerich recently completed "10,000 B.C.," which will be released March 7 by Warner Bros. and Legendary. The Wibberleys are among the dozen scribes in Writing Partners, the scribe collective which just sealed an unusual first-look deal with Fox for spec scripts. (Daily Variety, Aug. 15).That deal is reserved for original creations by those writers, so the "Fantastic Voyage" assignment doesn't apply.

Ok this excites me almost as much if not more than Escape from NY. This is a film that truly deserves a remake. Innerspace was fun but not the same. I really really really want to see this done right. Bring it on!!! Imagine this voyage into the human body with today's film technology and advancements we've made since then in science that could be injected into this script. I hope Fox treats this one right and makes a solid film. I think this one and the Incredible Shrinking man are just screaming for a decent remake. Emmerich is cool by me as I loved his Stargate film and 10,000 BC looks insanely good. The last 2 remakes (that deserved remakes) I was waiting to see were huge letdowns for me. War of the Worlds and King Kong. Many of you liked those films but I thought both sucked for different reasons. I can't believe how poorly they handled War of the Worlds, and I think with some editing King Kong could be a much better film with about an hour cut out of it.

 

[Catman]

Make it stop!

 

[Excel]

Hell Yes! Bring It On!

 

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The first film was great but looking back on it now there's been so many advancements in science it just comes across as a relic.

 

[deathshead2]

I enjoy most of Emmerichs movies. This could be a fun movie like most of his.

 

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Not only could the movie be fun but freaking imagine a video game controlling the sumbersible and guiding through a human body in 3d on the next gen systems trying to avoid the heart, or getting out of the ship into scuba gear, etc...My god that would be a blast.

 

[deathshead2]

Not only could the movie be fun but freaking imagine a video game controlling the sumbersible and guiding through a human body in 3d on the next gen systems trying to avoid the heart, or getting out of the ship into scuba gear, etc...My god that would be a blast.

But movie games suck?

 

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But movie games suck?

Not always. Many have but not always. Hulk games and Spidey games have been good, Riddick was awesome, and there have been others. Things are changing for the better.

 

[nocomics]

YES! Another REMAKE!!!

 

[Tempest19]

Awesome.

And will remake people ever shut up? They annoy me with their constant complaining, hell they probably threw a fit when the remake of the Fly came out. Lol.

 

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Awesome.

And will remake people ever shut up? They annoy me with their constant complaining, hell they probably threw a fit when the remake of the Fly came out. Lol.

LMFAO There's great remakes and bad remakes. One can only hope they'll treat these properties good. If they suck...don't watch them. That's how the studios will learn. It these don't neccessarily have to be remakes. They could be reinventions of the idea.

 

[Tempest19]

LMFAO There's great remakes and bad remakes. One can only hope they'll treat these properties good.

Exactly. Annoyance is- people hear remake and rush to conclusions.

At least wait until footage/trailer from the film or until you've seen the film or heard the overall response to the film before screaming bloody murder.

 

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The Thing was an awesome remake. It was disgiused as a sequel but in reality it was a remake.

 

[AhabTheArab]

call me crazy, but this could work.

 

[Spidey Lover 10]

aw, no! not THAT movie! y'know, in stories like this, when the phrase "Fantastic" voyage is used, for some shows that use this plot sometimes, the "fantastic" part can be a bit out of place. it's more like "WACKTASTIC" voyage, 2 me, in those cases.

 

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^ Yeah that movie. What of the coolest concepts ever put on film. There's nothing un-fantastic about the idea.

 

[Spidey Lover 10]

no, i mean 4 certain episodes of certain shows this is used in (spongebob, teen titans, etc. just some good examples, even though i don't watch these shows, anymore), it makes the "fantastic" part sound like "WACKTASTIC". get my drift?

 

[Bishop2]

This is genuinely a movie that I'd really like to see remade. I'm very interested in seeing modern CGI effects applied to traveling through a human body.

 

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http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/article.php?Article=4816

Shooting in Montreal.

 

[Excel]

this is happening? sweeeet

 

[Dave McFly]

i liked the last remake when it was called INNERSPACE which the fx in that movie made the 66 version look cheesy. but with 20 year advancement in fx i would LOVE to see how this take on the 66 film will be like t:.

 

[Wolfwood]

The first film was great but looking back on it now there's been so many advancements in science it just comes across as a relic.

Haha yeah no kidding, seems like now we'd have better medical options then devising a way to shrink human beings and a vehicle and injecting them into a human body.

 

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i liked the last remake when it was called INNERSPACE which the fx in that movie made the 66 version look cheesy. but with 20 year advancement in fx i would LOVE to see how this take on the 66 film will be like t:.

Great flick but it wasn't a remake it was a totally different film and a comdedy. It was I guess a twist on the shrinking idea.

 

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http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=21109

Exclusive: Emmerich On Fantastic Voyage

The director talks sci-fi remake

As you may have heard, Roland Emmerich, the man who obliterated The White House in Independence Day and flooded much of Manhattan in the unfairly maligned Day After Tomorrow, is planning a remake of camp sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage. Empire sat down with the director recently and he talked about his long history with the project and some major changes he's planning to the film before he gets behind the camera.

“I was attached to this project 15 years ago with [former producing partner] Dean Devlin and then we gave it back because we wanted to do some other original projects we had developed,” Emmerich remembers of his long association with the much mooted remake of the 1968 movie, in which a titchy crew in a tiny submarine is injected into a human body to do battle with corpuscles. “Then James Cameron came in and worked on the project. Two years ago Jim called me up and said ‘Roland I want you to look at the script for Fantastic Voyage – it’s not there yet’. And he sent it over and I hated the script.”

Key among Emmerich’s gripes was the screenplay’s futuristic setting. “ I said why have you put this in the future? I said let this happen now. It’s so much more cool and fun when we can say to a normal person from now, 'well we’re going to make you microscopic and put you in some submarine which we will shrink down and you have to do this stuff inside a body.’"

The signature Cameron militarism also didn't sit well with Emmerich's vision. “There were two submarines in the body. It was like a Navy SEALS film. And then the president of production at Fox – me and my partner and him all go surfing together – says 'Well, will you do it with a page one rewrite and we won’t start until you’re happy with the script?' So then I said yes. The key is I won’t do it unless it’s going to be a good movie.”

Marianne and Cormac Wibberley (National Treasure 2) are currently rewriting the script. It seems unlikely that shooting will commence pre-strike, so we could potentially be looking at a 2010 release for the movie.