Roland Emmerich is planning to remake the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage for 20th Century Fox (which released the DVD of the original this summer). Marianne and Cormac Wibberley, who wrote National Treasure, are in talks to write the new script. Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment partner Michael Wimer will produce the movie with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
Emmerich was part of a project to remake the movie about ten years ago, but nothing came of it. The Wibberleys, however, recently wrote a draft of the script that renewed his interest in doing the remake.
The story concerns five people aboard an experimental submarine that is miniaturized and injected into a dying man’s bloodstream in order to break up a blood clot in his brain.
Fantastic Voyage is often erroneously credited as a film of an Isaac Asimov novel, because Asimov wrote the novelization of the movie, but his book was released a few months before the film. Asimov was disappointed with the movie, because he felt his scientific explanations were far more plausible than what appeared on screen. In 1987, he was able to write a sequel entitled Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain, which was entirely his own work.
Emmerich recently finished 10,000 B.C., which is scheduled to be released 7 March by Warner Brothers and Legendary.