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James Cameron is Working on a Fantastic Voyage Remake

Today at Life After Gateway I have news about James Cameron’s post-Avatar 3 plans …

Fantastic Voyage was a 1966 Science Fiction movie that I watched many times on TV in the 1970s. It was frequently on TVO (a government-funded channel in Ontario, Canada) and, for a kid watching on a small 18″ CRT television in a wood-paneled family room, it featured an eye-popping concept and magnificent visuals. The SF movies from the 60s and 70s were always in rotation on TV back then, especially on Detroit Channel 7, where I saw many of the best Sci-Fi films of the day, like Soylent Green, Logan’s Run, Silent Running, The Omega Man, Planet of the Apes, and more.

Fantastic Voyage was an incredible addition to this list. The story featured a scientist who had created a miraculous new miniaturization technology. When he falls ill due to a blood clot in his brain, his tech is used to shrink a submarine and inject it into his bloodstream to repair the damage. Of course, no mission of this sort is easy, and the team of adventurers, including Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence, face obstacles like an unplanned journey through the heart, aggressive white blood cells, and more. I distinctly remember the journey into a lung, where the intrepid crew had to replenish oxygen, and also the presence of a saboteur on board the Proteus. What a plot! The screenwriter was Harry Kleiner, and it was based on a story by Jerome Bixby and Otto Klement.

It was later updated in the film, Innerspace, starring Martin Short and Dennis Quaid.

James Cameron has now informed fans, via Deadline, of his plans to produce a remake, but he will not direct the film. He’s currently working on the script with the director, whom he did not name. This project has been in gestation for decades, but Cameron’s update is a positive thing.

Avatar 3 started slow at the box office, with $89 million, but the second weekend had a startling take, only dropping 28%. The previous film, Avatar 2: The Way of Water, dropped over 50% in its second weekend. This bodes well for the latest installment of Cameron’s series, which has now crossed the $1 billion mark, and is on its way to a predicted final tally of $1.5 to $1.8 billion.

For more news about the Fantastic Voyage remake, watch this space.

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A mysterious assassin has murdered Cliff Sim, Chief Security Officer of the underwater colony, Trieste. Cliff was a mountain of a man, highly trained, and impossible to defeat in combat. And yet …

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The other books in The Rise of Oceania series by Timothy S Johnston:

The War Beneath 9781771484718
The Savage Deeps 9781771485067
Fatal Depth 9781554555574
An Island of Light 9781554555819
The Shadow of War 9781554556007