It has been known for more than 5 years that James Cameron is planning a remake of the sci-fi adventure film The Fantastic Voyage. The director of Avatar will only act as a producer. Finding a director for the project However, it seems to be proving difficult. Roland Emmerich, among others, would have been a candidate, but he left the project again.
The Fantastic Journey is an adventure in the human body
The Fantastic Journey is a sci-fi adventure from 1966. In it, an Eastern Bloc agent defects to the West, but suffers a blood clot in his brain during an attack. To save him, a group of scientists shrunk in a submarine and injected into the defector’s bloodstream. The rescue team only has an hour to heal the clot before it grows back to normal size. The main problem for them is the body’s immune system.
The film received two Oscars (special effects and production design) and was nominated for two more (editing and cinematography). James Cameron has decided to make the film with the Technologies from Avatar are coming to the cinema again in 3D bring to.
Roland Emmerich doesn’t want to work with James Cameron
At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Antoine Fuqua and Roland Emmerich shared a panel for a filmmaker conversation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, director Louis Leterrier later joined the film via video. He expressed Interested in Cameron’s project and asked Emmerich what it was like working with the Avatar mastermind. Emmerich had clear words for him at the event in the summer:
James Cameron is very arrogant, and so at some point I just gave up. Because it’s like, ‘Is it your movie or my movie?’
A collaboration with James Cameron and Roland Emmerich seems to be an impossibility. While Emmerich thought Cameron was arrogant, he also made it clear that he doesn’t want to be told anything:
I have to say that I do my thing, and if I can’t do my thing, I’m not interested at all. It’s that simple. So if someone else wants to say something to me and is more powerful than me, I get out.
Apparently Emmerich himself did also a problem with thatto work together with others. Neither at eye level nor under anyone else. To a certain extent it should be understandable, after all, directors are artists who want to realize their vision.
It remains to be seen whether Cameron will find a director. Maybe at a certain point it would make sense to sit in the director’s chair yourself. However, according to the Hollywood Reporter, there still seem to be interested parties and it is not known whether Louis Leterrier lost interest after the conversation with Emmerich.