James Cameron won’t direct the microscopic sci-fi adventure, Fantastic Voyage, but he is producing the project and reportedly wants Louis Leterrier (Clash of the Titans) onboard to direct.
Paul Greengrass passed on directing Fantastic Voyage earlier this year and left the door open for another filmmaker to tackle the project, which revolves around a group of scientists who shrink themselves in order to enter the body of an injured man and (hopefully) prevent him from dying.
Darren Aronofsky met with Cameron to discuss possibly directing Fantastic Voyage, but is now signed on for Wolverine 2 instead. Timur Bekmambetov was also approached to helm the project – which is expected to feature a lot of cutting-edge CGI and 3D visuals – but is unavailable for the near future, now that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has been greenlit. Both Cameron and 20th Century Fox officials want shooting on Fantastic Voyage to commence in early 2011, so they’re looking for someone who would be available to start pre-production ASAP.
That’s where Leterrier enters the picture. He’s already handled big-budget, FX-heavy films before and – as Cinematical has pointed out – is essentially a director-for-hire who has worked on franchises heralded by production powerhouses like Luc Besson and Marvel Studios in the past. Leterrier’s name has been dropped in connection with a number of upcoming tentpole pics of late and Fantastic Voyage seems like one that would be a good fit for him.
'Fantastic Voyage' is being designed by Cameron's 'Avatar' team.
Cameron’s Avatar production team helped designed the gorgeous world of Pandora and will lend their talents to Fantastic Voyage by creating a photo-realistic CGI version of the interiors of the human body. If Leterrier does sign on for the film, he will also get to work with Cameron’s 3D film equipment, which guarantees that the movie won’t suffer from the sloppy 3D conversion that plagued Leterrier’s Clash of the Titans.
Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island) is currently doing work on the script for Fantastic Voyage, which revolves around a pretty standard sci-fi premise (i.e., humans encounter problems on a journey through unexplored territory). The film still has the potential to be an exciting cinematic adventure full of eye-popping visuals – especially since Cameron is involved.
Expect to hear an official announcement about either Leterrier or another director signing on for Fantastic Voyage in the near future.
Source: Deadline
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one of my fav’s from when i was a kid, with Cameron’s 3D it should look amazing, how knows maybe they will kill off the HIV virus while they are in there??? fun to see looking forward to it.
till next time
psst… the “V” in HIV stands for “virus”
opps o.k. i messed up , but, still a good idea
and how about getting Charisma Carpenter in the role held by Raquel Welch
hmmmm food for thought
I was under the (obviously mistaken) impression that Rolland Emmerich was set to produce/direct Fantastic Voyage? What happened on that end?
The Transporter = Awesome
Danny The Dog = Awesome
The Transporter 2 = Extremely exagerated but good
The Incredible Hulk = Super Awesome
Clash of the Titans = Not as good as I expected but it was enjoyable.
So I think Louis Leterrier will do a great job.
Louis Leterrier will do really well. He is a very gifted Director and James Cameron knows that.
It’s MARVEL’S loss for not giving him “The Avengers”.
The Transporter = Meh
Danny The Dog = Bad
The Transporter 2 = Bad
The Incredible Hulk = Super Aweful
Clash of the Titans = Super Ultra Atrocious
So I think Louis Leterrier will do an aweful job.
Wow, you are SOOOOO original. And it is spelled “awful.” If you didn’t like The Transporter, than you really don’t like action movies. That film was awesome.
You don’t watch that many movies, do you.
To call all those films “aweful” (sic) demonstrates either pure trollish behaviour, or you really don’t know what an awful film is.
hey, maybe hes a fan of soap operas! you never know!
And what’s wrong with Soap Operas?! Victor Newman is the king!!
Oh crap! I have to turn in my mancard don’t I?
haha im afraid so! hand it over!
no but i just meant that he must have a different taste than us that love action such as transporter, which was great in the action genre, or at least a lot of fun!
If Louis Leterrier is in the director’s chair for this one, I’m there.
I thought both Transporter movies were very good, and The Incredible Hulk was awesome. Looking forward to Fantastic Voyage.
so cam talks $#!T on his movie’s (clash titans) 3d visuals then tries to hire him
obviously theyll use the 3d cams for this just sayin..why does louie sign on for this
Because the 3D was post production and looked horrible, the film wasn’t meant to be shot as a 3D film. Cameron was just talking about the post 3D wich was the studios decision not the directors.
I’m happy this is moving forward and I agree with Sully, Cameron’s criticism isn’t about Leterrier. Chalk it up to studio experimentation, it did do well enough that they’re still talking sequel…