If you made a list of directors you expected might be angling to come aboard the new version 1966’s classic sci-fi romp Fantastic Voyage, we doubt you’d have added Paul Greengrass. As part of a wish list, maybe, but nothing more. And yet there he is, circling the job of the new movie being produced by James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
20th Century Fox is backing the film, which according to Variety it’s treating as a likely Big Event Movie, complete with 3D shot using Cameron’s patented equipment (which means it should be proper 3D and not like the recent wave of post-edit conversions which have been stirring up complaints).
Shane Salerno has been writing the script, which sees a scientist lingering at death’s door whose colleagues agree to be miniaturized and injected into his bloodstream so they can battle his medical issues with the help of a high-tec sub.
If Greengrass does clamber on to the project’s deck, it’ll be his first stab at sci-fi and, we’d wager, a whole new visual experience, since his trademark handheld filming style might not translate all that well to a world of bloodvessels and tissue.
But we’re crossing our fingers he takes the plunge…