He's taken a journey to 10,000BC, and now Roland Emmerich is set to go back to the future with sci-fi remake The Fantastic Voyage. For those of you born in the '60s or early '70s, that's the one with Raquel Welsh. For those of you born in the late '70s or afterwards, it's the one that's a bit like Inner Space.
The story is about a scientist who's dying of a blood clot following an assassination attempt (at least in the original). The only chance to save him is for a team of doctors and scientists to make use of radical new miniaturisation technology, shrink themselves and a submarine and make their way into his body to fix the clot. The only problem is that they'll also have to make it out again before the sub re-expanded; otherwise they could find that the vehicle ends up with a new coat of scientist-coloured paint.
Emmerich was attached to this project once before about ten years back, and he came back on board after seeing a recent treatment by Marianne and Cormac Wibberley, the wonderfully-monikered screenwriters behind the upcoming National Treasure 2. They're in talks to write the script now, so the film could go into production next year.