Guillermo Del Toro in Talks to Direct FANTASTIC VOYAGE Remake
Guillermo del Toro is on the hunt for a new project to jump on now that Pacific Rim 2 seems to have been shelved for the time being. The director is currently in talks to take on the big screen remake of the 1966 sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage.
The movie is set up at Twentieth Century Fox and is being produced by James Cameron and his Lightstorm Entertainment production company. Cameron and del Toro have worked together before on developing a big screen adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness, which unfortunately never happened. The Fantastic Voyage remake also re-teams the director with writer David Goyer, who is scripting the film. They worked together on Blade II.
Fantastic Voyage was set during the Cold War and centered on a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent in a miniature submarine inside the blood stream of a scientist to save his life. The scientist was a defector who was in a coma after an assassination attempt.
This could be an awesome project for del Toro to take on, and I'd love to see what his vision of this story would be — especially with the stunning visuals he always manages to come up with. The last movie he made was the gothic horror thriller Crimson Peak, which was met with mixed reviews. What do you all think about the possibility of del Toro directing Fantastic Voyage?