Cameron to Produce 3-D 'Fantastic Voyage' Remake

With Avatar around the corner, James Cameron is already diving back into his work, beginning the development process on a remake of Fantastic Voyage. Shane Salerno wrote the script, which is as sure a sign as anything that Cameron won't direct. It's being reported that Fox, which is distributing the prohibitively priced Avatar, is hunting for a director and that the film will lean on the same kind of 3-D magic Cameron used in his new movie. Perhaps this sounds familiar to you. This is not the first time word of a Fantastic Voyage remake has surfaced. It was a Roland Emmerich project a while ago, but that talk died down quickly when he began work on 2012. Oddly enough, with that disaster movie approaching the $700 million mark in global ticket sales, he'd probably be a guy at or near the top of the list now. It doesn't appear that way, however. New rumblings have Tarsem Singh as a potential director for Fantastic Voyage, and I dunno. If you've seen The Cell or The Fall, you know he makes very stylish, very colorful films. On that basis, I can see why Fox might be interested. But I guess it kind of depends on what impact the story makes on him and vice versa. Is his vision close enough to what Cameron would want, in other words. No matter who gets the job, another big 3-D film for Cameron and Fox is likely to have a sizable production budget, so that stuff about having a vision that's close to Cameron's is not going to unimportant. And because the nature of the effects is once again so important (miniaturized scientists injected into a dying man's bloodstream), you can be sure Cameron won't cut any corners to get something he's proud of.