There have been many rumours surrounding James Cameron’s next movie now that Avatar has finally hit cinemas across the world, numerous web sites were erroneously predicting that his next movie would be a sci-fi flick called Doomsday Protocol, after Production Weekly reported that:
“James Cameron is developing a Shane Salerno-scripted sci-fi action script for Fox, described as an ‘event’ film set in the future”
and then /Film jumped the gun on the details, stating that Cameron would be doing Doomsday Patrol after they put 2 and 2 together and got 5, deciding that a Hollywood Reporter announcement on the film, a “Seven Samurai movie with aliens” script that was written by Salerno, and bought by 20th Century Fox in a seven-figure deal in September 2008, meant that it HAD to be that film that Cameron was making. Turns out they were wrong. In fact, Cameron is revisiting a film he wrote a script for a few years ago….
It has been announced by Variety that Cameron’s next film is set to be Fantastic Voyage, a remake of the original 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer. As the story goes, Cameron wrote a script for a futuristic Fantastic Voyage adaptation for director Roland Emmerich, who quickly turned it down on the basis that Emmerich didn’t like the futuristic setting and that fact that Cameron’s script had two submarines shrink inside someone’s body, effectively making it a war movie inside a human host.
Well now the film has come full circle and Cameron is set to produce this new take on Fantastic Voyage rather than write it. And yes, it WILL be shot in 3D!
