Yesterday, all the scuttlebutt was that James Cameron was soon to direct a kind of seven samurai in space film from a script written by Shane Salerno maybe called Doomsday Protocol. While this may one day come to pass and will likely be pretty sweet, James Cameron himself spilled the beans on his next dip into the salty Sci-Fi seas. On the red carpet, during the London premiere of a small indy film James just finished called “Avatar”, James scoffed at this idea and said that he will be producing a new film soon based on Fantastic Voyage. Fantastic Voyage is about a team of intrepid science types that get miniaturized by a probably evil Soviet scientist and injected, with spaceship, into a human with issues.
This movie has been done like a hundred times it seems. How many times do we have to see the scene where the white blood cells attack the spaceship or a space suited scientist floating in the red tide? Then there is the much beloved moment where the patient sneezes the ship out of his body. It’s all been done. I’m getting the feeling this is one of those pet projects a successful director with self green lighting abilities launches. I bet James has wanted to do Fantastic Voyage since he got his first movie camera. This reminds me of the whole Peter Jackson “King Kong” fiasco. It’s never good for anyone concerned when you can’t say No to a person. More news on this as it arrives. Thanks /Film.
