Fantastic Voyage

David Goyer is a busy man. After guiding the stories of The Dark Knight Trilogy, Man of Steel, Batman Vs. Superman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s upcoming take on Sandman, he is now being lined up to write the treatment for a big screen remake of 1966 sci-fi classic, Fantastic Voyage.

The movie is being made by Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment, with Cameron, Jon Landau, and Rae Sanchini all set to produce along with Goyer.

Shane Salerno, Cormac and Marianne Wibberly, and Laeta Kalogridis are among those who have taken a crack at developing Fantastic Voyage over the years, and while we haven’t heard much about the project since 2011, Goyer’s involvement promises to kick-start the project.

The studio is hoping that Fantastic Voyage will be an event-sized tentpole for them (and potentially a new franchise), and it has been placed on the fast track following the acquisition of Goyer.

For those of you who may not be familiar with the original, it revolves around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent in a miniature submarine inside the body of a scientist to save his life. The original movie was set during the Cold War, and the scientist was a defector who was in a coma after an assassination attempt.

There are currently no details on how Goyer will update the story for a modern audience, but with Cameron’s involvement, it’s sure to be quite the visual spectacle!

Source: The Hollywood Reporter