James Cameron has revealed that he hopes to finally move his long-delayed remake of the sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage into production with a new director next year, according to Screen Rant. Released in 1966, the original Fantastic Voyage follows an adventurous team of specialists who are shrunken down in a submarine and injected into the body of a comatose scientist to save his life from a blood clot, having only sixty minutes to complete the mission before they start returning to their normal size. Mysterious complications ensue, however, leading the team to suspect that one of them is a saboteur.
Directed by Richard Fleischer, who also helmed other sci-fi classics such as Soylent Green and Disney’s adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, and starring Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O’Brien, Donald Pleasence, and Arthur Kennedy, the film was well received by critics, currently sitting at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, and won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects.
Now, Cameron, who has been trying to get a remake in front of the cameras since the early 2000s, mentioned during an interview that he had found a new director for the project and is hoping to finally move forward with the project in 2026:
“Fantastic Voyage, which I’ve been nurturing now for a while…I hope to get that going this coming year, absolutely…I’ll be producing it. I’m working with a director right now with a new script…So, yeah, we’re gonna do it.”
Filmmakers who were previously attached to direct Cameron’s remake included Guillermo del Toro, Shawn Levy, Paul Greengrass, and Roland Emmerich.
The identity of this new director has yet to be confirmed.
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