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Remake Ahoy!! Roland Emmerich & Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment Go On A FANTASTIC VOYAGE!!
Merrick here...
Roland Emmerich (THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, INDEPENDENCE DAY, STARGATE, and the forthcoming 10,000 BC) will direct the long-gestating remake of FANTASTIC VOYAGE for 20th Century Fox.
So says Variety, in an article positioned under HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 on the front page (sigh).
This project has been in the wind for...jeeze...close to the lifespan of this site.
At one point, it was a vehicle for Emmerich and Devlin (who are now Devlin-less and Emmerich-less respectively).
At another juncture, it was a James Cameron film. Interestingly, Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment will produce the new film along with Emmerich's Centropolis banner. No word on whether Cameron will be directly involved with this iteration. He's kind of busy with AVATAR and all, so...
At this time, writers Cormac and Marianne Wibberley are orbiting the film. They wrote both NATIONAL TREASURE films.
For those unfamiliar with FANTASTIC VOYAGE, it's about an important dude whose life is threatened by an inoperable blood clot in his brain.
The solution? Use super technology to shrink a scientific team...inside of a miniature submarine...and insert them into the dude's body on a mission to operate from within.
The crux of the story is about their harrowing journey through the human body -- where the functions we take for granted (breathing, heartbeat, etc.) are enormous, horrifying, deadly obstacles to overcome. The approach here was interesting: many minute facets of the human body were presented as incredibly dangerous and extremely alien. It'll be interesting to see what kind of approach Emmerich takes.
Richard Fleischer (TORA, TORA, TORA! and SOYLENT GREEN) directed the 1966 original, which starred Raquel Welch as one of the intrepid travelers. For my money, one of the hottest moments in SF history is when Welch is covered by gooey human antibodies. Sort of a thinking man's bukkake, I suppose.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE also inspired the Steven Spielberg produced, Joe Dante directed INNERSPACE:
In my younger years, I constantly got this title mixed with with the completely unrelated NBC television series FANTASTIC JOURNEY...
Presumably, I won't be as easily confused now.
Maybe.
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Martin Short and Dennis Quaid must have cameos!!
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Sure, why not? I loved it as a kid. It's not exactly a holy cow being remade, so I will reserve my outrage for something else.
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Teaming up with this motherfucking hack? He should know better. Sadly his brain must really be going soft, he's also on the record as saying Paul W.S. Anderson's ALIEN VS. PREDATOR is the third best in the series. Next he's going to hire Uwe Boll to direct THE COFFIN. You read it here first!
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Shouts Will Smith as he pilots the super-sub Proteus at hyper-speed through the heart. "Aw hhell no", comments Will Smith as white corpuscles dissolve his beloved Proteus. On a personal note, I may vomit.
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What is it with all these re-makes. For gods sake I want to be surprised and inspired..! Why the hell would I want to go see a movie that's already been done and let's not forget, done REALLY well..!
Hollywood is full of idiots..! -
And one thing that bothered me in the movie. The sub was wrecked, so how come it didn't grow big too, I mean it's a sub in the guy's brain that should de-miniaturize after an hour. The brain should explode with wrecked submarine parts coming out of it. that would have been awesome!
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She's quite well-preserved.
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Though that would have interesting crossover potential.
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And fight a big kitty.
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As long as David O. Russell isn't directing, that is.
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And those other little people - I forget who they were. The Borrowers? Someone help me here...
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He should stop the list of anyone's Hack Pack.
His Godzilla is the most disappointing piece of shit EVER to come out in the summer. And the Day after Tomorrow was nothing more than Al Gore's wet dream.
Blahhh
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Throw in Bigfoot and WIld Boy and that could rock.
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Only two of them are remakes. Yes, Hollywood produces NOTHING but remakes these days. :P
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That has to be the AICN quote of the week.
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... it is just too silly to be remade. It's scientifically ridiculous. Aside from the aforementioned "why didn't the sub revert to actual size?" goof, You can't shrink people, because people are made of atoms and atoms can't be shrunk. They are already as small as you can get them. Even Futurama got this right.
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but, I mean, is there ANY way that a remake of an already pretty cheesy source material, combined with the semi-retarded scriptwriting team from the national treasure turd loafs, and the completely retarded team of Emmerich and his masturbating hand, that this WON'T end up a steaming bowl of taco diarrhea?worst. remake. ever.
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He wants Shia Laboof to be the important guy.
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It was a fucking ride at EPCOT in Disney World. It was a fun simulator, but seeing that experience stretched into 1.5 hours with no 'ride' seems pretty damn lame.
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Merk said You can't shrink people, because people are made of atoms and atoms can't be shrunk.
Dude youve never had shrinkage before?
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and old enough to have seen it when it was originally released. And of all the high-concept sci fi films of the 60's, this is the one that cries out to be remade, unlike a certain apes ruling the planet movie. And the plot and science is silly/wacky, but it was the set design and special effects that made the movie. The "go where no man has gone before, INSIDE the human body" adventure made it exciting for the it's time, and it would not hurt to update it with todays effects. I think ILM nailed it pretty well in Innerspace though. And the original Proteus design was pretty cool. Doesn't bother me that Emmerich is set to direct as it's pretty much an effect showcase with a plot attached.
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Did anybody see this direct-to-DVD, cheap, Bulgarian flick with the same FV plot with a nuke in the body? It was on SCI-FI Channel for a few seconds and starred that paycheck actor, Lance Hendriksen.
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Wasn't he the boy from Witch Mountain? In the Disney films?
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... could be the best thing about this. I heard the last take had shootouts inside some politicians body, not quite the reverential tone of the original. This is a classic to many, despite protestations to the contrary . They should do it CGI, because without "real" sets and a CGI sub it may end up cartoony. Please no more about how "wooden" Stephen Boyd was. Funny, the original story used gaslight turn of the century technology. Wish Cameron did it. He'll get that sub right.
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Aint It Joblo's news!!!
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The leader was this Nick Fury guy with an eye patch, a babe, some other dude and a grown up version of Hadji from Jonny Quest who was mystical.
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One of the scariest movie deaths I've ever seen! His scream still scares me!
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Given that people are far more familiar with the inner workings of the human body these days, how fantastic can this journey really be? Add to which, the concept has already been spoofed 20 years ago with Innerspace, making the struggle to sell audiences on this concept, let alone wow them with it, that much harder. I just don't see it, but maybe I'll be proven wrong.As for the original, I've always thought it was rather overblown and over-rated myself, but that's just me.
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You know I love AICN but whenever anything and I mean ANYTHING gets remade there are those that bitch and moan about any remakes, listen guys several good, even great movies have been remakes. Do I tink we need to remake every movie, no, however sometimes a movie calls for a remake, a better version that becomes the definitive version. Is this particular movie in need of a remake, don't know ahven't seen it in forever, but as someone mentioned above, it's an SFX showcase with a plot attached. Emerrich isn't my first choice as directior nor are the guys that wrote National Treasure, hell I think I could write a better version then those guys. My question is what busty redhead are they going to get to replace Raquel Welch, in the Wal hard talkback someone mentioned nad I concurred that we need more Nikki Cox, could this be a tailor made role for her?as for Innerspace, that movie was a favorite then and a favorite now.
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A team of scientists are miniaturized to remove an inoperable cyst deep within Paris Hilton's vagina. War erupts when a team of Russian scientists and Chinese scientists are discovered there first.
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I always thought that the white blood cells disolved the ship. Seems silly now but it made sense when I was as a kid seeing it in the theater. Of course losing the ship was a good excuse to see more Raquel Wire-ScubaFu action!
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Carl Franklin was a better director back when he was on FANTASTIC JOURNEY than either of those hacks are today.
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ID4, Godzilla, etc. Those were some kick-ass trailers and piece of shit movies. I won't be fooled again.
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c'mon somebody had to say it...
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This is a perfect movie to be filmed in HD 3D digital. Just like Avatar.
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This is mostly good news except for the screenwriters, in my opinion. Maybe the Wibberleys will pull out something... um... fantastic, but I thought both "National Treasure" films were brain-sucking piles of shit. I'm not sure I can trust the scribes of such worthlessly unimaginative stories. I fully believe conspiracies exist in the world (how could they not?), but the Wibberleys' dumbed down tripe written expressly for Joe-six pack and his overweight kids just sucked. Real conspiracies are far more secretive and misleading, unlike Nic Cage's (what the fuck was he thinking? Maybe "Where's my paycheck?") portrayal of fast food intrigue.
Anyway, I'm happy to hear James Cameron is onboard. I hope this film tackles nanotechnology, cutting edge medical tech, advanced stem cell applications, and the socio-economic impact of such breakthroughs. However, knowing the Wibberleys, we'll probably get kindergarten level bullshit masked as "cutting edge" coolness. God, I hope they drastically update the film to bring it into our 2000s. Because a lot of today's real world medical technology is already decades ahead of the original film's premise. Here's to hoping. -
I'll slide slide slippity slide along, too.
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WHAT did it SAY about the sub issue?
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Like the dude they're operating on while importent turns out to be a real evil fuck (shades of the vp) so they sabatouge the operation
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And he needs to ride that tricycle inside a vein.
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Great visual effects, Dennis Quaid at his rascally best, and a pre-plastic surgery Meg Ryan in that incredibly hot black leather miniskirt.
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always love the scene in the doctors waiting room with Martin Short and Joe Flaherty. God those SCTV folk are/were great.
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...i remember watching this movie in early 80's and it was one of the movie that stuck in my memory besides Alien
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Asimov not only wrote a "novelization" of the original movie, many years later he wrote his own take on the same basic plotline: "Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain." It fixed all the technical errors of the movie (the enlarging submarine not exploding the patient's head, for example), came up with a far more clever explanation for the "miniaturization" effect that made the science almost sound plausible and added a whole additional Asimovian layer of "gotcha! Didn't see that coming!" at the end. If they could get passed the still-Cold War aspects of the story, that's what they ought to make into a movie.
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with a side trip across his taint.
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Muff diving has a whole new meaning. Book your trip today on Expedia.com.
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Aug 16, 2007 7:17:47 PM CDT
FANTASTIC VOYAGE 4: THROUGH THE MIND OF BRETT RATNER
by bringingsexyback
Here we explore the slow, defective synapses and fast deteriorating cells in Brett Ratner's brain to see why he makes the movies he does.
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power.... anyone remember this movie? About a catatonic guy with telekinetic power and communicates using typewriter?
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Marvel at the massive caverns of this olfactory oasis. One of the 7 wonders of the micro-world.
* Currently booked to capacity. Offering Barbara Streisand as alternate destination. Same price. -
Scale the treacherous slopes to reach Nipple Inn. The party never stops at Nipple Inn.
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another fuckin remake. Who cares.
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Be hypnotized by the beauty of the white crystalline walls. Please be aware that this tour will not be conducted while Lindsay is driving, for safety reasons.
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Don't just hear ... EXPERIENCE the words coming out of his mouth. Adults 17 and older only.
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Take the new bullet train tour across the "Dark Continent". Don't forget to sign up for the Pimp Training seminars.
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FANTASTIC VOYAGE is not a classic (unless you enjoy dialogue like "Make a right at the next corpuscle!"). It has earned a bit of cult adulation (like MAD, MAD, MAD...WORLD) and has been spoofed on FUTURAMA. But a remake? Emmerich and Devlin hail their big, noisy cash cows as social diatribes--in reality, of course, they're only mediocre disaster pix.
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Aug 16, 2007 10:28:14 PM CDT
I used to have a model of the Proteus from the cartoon
by bob cryptonight
Good times!
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Get rid of Emmerich.
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Don't forget, Jerome Bixby also gave us the Star Trek Mirror-Universe concept. Which has lived on through most of the Trek incarnations, either directly or indirectly.
In the Asimov novel, the crew lure the white cell that consumes the submarine into following them up the optic nerve. It's extracted along with them and then the sub parts expand outside of Benes (sic). -
Yeah how about that? They go to the brain dude. Tell me that's not rad.
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Dean Devlin and Ronald Emmerich were set to remake this movie back in 1996. The story involved a new crew shrunken and injected into an alien (recovered from a crash site) at Area 51. The EBE was dying from a terrestrial desease. The story would follow up on what happened to the last movie. Early miniaturization had a serious side - cancer. Grant, Cora, Dr. Duval and Captain Owens are all dead. At one point Dean Cain and Sandra Bullock were attached. It didn't happen. The following year Glen Morgan and James Wong wrote a new screenplay. They dropped the alien idea. The new victim was the President. Set in 2041 two miniaturized crews (one Navy) are inserted to save him (don't recall what). The idea at the time was to use fiber-optic cameras for footage. Anyhow, that year Devlin and Emmerich left 20th Century Fox to Sony Pictures to produce Godzilla. *sigh* They so pissed over my childhood icon. Here you go Bob Cryptonight, a pix of the styrene plastic model from 1970. http://tinyurl.com/32po8o
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Um, either you're in the industry or are a decent guesser, as that is pretty close to Jerome Bixby's intention for a sequel at one point.
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Cool cat. He enjoyed composing music as well. I had the bounty of lending him a rug shampooer on occasion. His son Emerson is contributing on the commentary track for The Man From Earth DVD.
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how did we miss Emmerprick from the hack list the other day
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Cobbio, you said "I thought both National Treasure films were brain-sucking piles of shit."Really? BOTH of them were? As in National Treasure 1 AND 2? Out of curiosity, just how is it that you formed such a low opinion on a sequel that's STILL in post-production and isn't due for release for nearly half a year?
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Like Skimn, I'm actually old enough to remember seeing FANTASTIC VOYAGE in the theater as a young kid and loving it. It's still one of my all-time geek favorites simply because it did make such an impression on me at that age. I mean, come on, you have one of the all-time coolest looking ships in sci fi movie history (The Proteus) plus Raquel Welch, in her prime, in a skin tight outfit. How can you go wrong?Speaking of development hell, I have the Morgan/Wong screenplay, which at one point was greenlit. I have to say, it's actually not bad. It was a solid updating on the original, with some pretty solid twists thrown in as well. I was actually looking forward to seeing that on the big screen, but unfortunately as is often the case in Hollywood, the whole project imploded just as fast as it was ramping up.Overall, I don't mind them remaking this, and I don't completely hate the idea of Emmerich doing this. As he did with STARGATE or ID4, I think he could make a solid summer SFX adventure film -- well, when he's concentrating.Translation: Roland has a lot to repent to geekdom for. Like everyone else, whenever I hear his name attached to anything semi-cool, I'll still cringe just a bit while likewise hoping that he doesn't crap another GODZILLA shitfest out of his ass.
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It has already been remade very well as InnerSpace as any fule know but a straight faced version might be interesting, just not Emmerich please. A big movie needs a safe pair of hands not a hack. Cameron's version would no doubt be marvelllous but we'll never see it. Speilberg anyone?
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Jesssica Biel for the Welch role. Only her body can fit that suit like Welch's. At least in my Op.
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David, you said "It has already been remade very well as INNERSPACE as any fule know, but a straight faced version might be interesting, just not Emmerich please...Speilberg anyone?"Highly unlikely since Spielberg can already say "Been there, done that" since he WAS the Executive Producer of INNERSPACE.
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Were you being serious? I can never tell on TB... Asimov wrote 'Destination Brain' an equally questionable sequel to 'Fantastic Voyage' in '88 I believe. Not so much with the good. Its in the bottom 300 or so books he wrote.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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busted. i'm not familiar with the asimov book sequel. i knew about the alien mind idea referenced above some time ago. and again, as i knew jerome personally, for me this is totally cool and his non-belief in God notwithstanding, i'm sure from on high he's happy to see people enjoying Man From Earth.
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Okla-homa. Tiyah.
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Good news, Jack. I think we can rule out Demonic Possession right off the bat.
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Just pick one!
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...It takes a brave man to kick back and party.
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Sorry!
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He's a bit overated but with the run on fantasy/sci-fi film trilogies and fan boy properties in general, I'm surprised we haven't seen a 'Foundation' with attendant sequels or maybe the 'Robot' novels with R Daniel.
I was re-reading 'Naked Sun' and thought it might be interesting to adapt with retro art direction; silver rocket ships and computers with lot of switches and nifty lights...The sort of 'pull this lever an have the rocket land vertically' kind of old school sci-fi.
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