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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:36 pm |
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Quote: Fox And James Cameron Tap Shawn Levy For 3D 'Fantastic Voyage'
20th Century Fox has set Shawn Levy to direct Fantastic Voyage, the James Cameron-produced 3D tent pole film. I’m told that Levy has boarded the re-imagining of the 1966 original about a team of scientists shrunk into a ship in an attempt to save a colleague’s life. Fox and Cameron have been moving cautiously on a big budget film that, from early in the script once they go inside the body, is almost exclusively CGI. The script is by Shane Salerno, with Laeta Kalogridis working on a polish.
The directing job has been one of the big open slots out there since Paul Greengrass ended a flirtation with the picture last year. I’m told that helmers like Darren Aronofsky, Timur Bekmambetov, Jonathan Mostow and Louis Leterrier met with Cameron. Levy is an unexpected choice, but he is a Fox favorite who is broadening beyond comedies into bigger fare.
He has a strong commercial instinct, and made Fox a fortune with the Night at the Museum franchise and before that Cheaper By the Dozen and What Happens in Vegas, which led the film to re-up his 21 Laps banner last year for another 3 years. He last directed the Tina Fey-Steve Carell comedy Date Night for Fox. Levy most recently directed the hi-tech action film Real Steel for DreamWorks with Hugh Jackman and recently signing on for another action adventure picture with the star for Fox. He also set up a feature version of the Spike TV series Deadliest Warrior at Fox through his 21 Laps banner as a possible directing vehicle on a film now being scripted by John D. Payne and Patrick McKay. Levy is repped by WME. http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/fox-and ... age-104163
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:39 pm |
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:40 pm |
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:01 pm |
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The director choice has me worried
CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN doesn't really scream FANTASTIC VOYAGE director to me.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:10 pm |
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I watched the original for the first time in decades recently. It was a super-simple action picture with a guessable who-dunnit attached.
I think the only way that they can do disservice to the old version is to not shrink and not go into a human body. And to not cast Kim Kardashian as the mute medical assistant.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:32 pm |
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RobertSwanderson wrote: I think the only way that they can do disservice to the old version is to not shrink and not go into a human body. I dunno. The name Will Ferrell comes to mind...
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:52 pm |
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If they were to base the screenplay on Isaac Asimov's novelization, I'd be more interested. Hope they make clear there is a valid REASON for the woman to come along, aside from sex appeal.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:09 am |
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(T)Eddy wrote: If they were to base the screenplay on Isaac Asimov's novelization, I'd be more interested. Hope they make clear there is a valid REASON for the woman to come along, aside from sex appeal. Does he explain how they can breathe?
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:28 am |
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Rick Hannah wrote: (T)Eddy wrote: If they were to base the screenplay on Isaac Asimov's novelization, I'd be more interested. Hope they make clear there is a valid REASON for the woman to come along, aside from sex appeal. Does he explain how they can breathe? If you look at the original movie, Rachel Welch's character does NOTHING. In the book, she is supposedly a laser expert, but it's the DOCTOR who repairs the laser after it gets sabotaged. I have no problem with casting a beautiful woman as a scientist, but beef up the writing so that you can BELIEVE she's a scientist. There are three female characters in the movie Hollow Man, and I can easily believe that they are scientists. As for how they can breathe, the answer is obvious---the air in the Proteus is miniaturized along with the ship. In fact, in the book they have to miniaturize the air coming in through Benes' lungs before they can use it.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:05 am |
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(T)Eddy wrote: If they were to base the screenplay on Isaac Asimov's novelization, I'd be more interested. Hope they make clear there is a valid REASON for the woman to come along, aside from sex appeal. I'm sorry. Sex appeal is always a valid reason.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:41 am |
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I guess I'll have to start doing some Google image searches for Raquel Welch pictures to bring back the memories since this thread has descended into science and stuff....
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:16 pm |
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Rick Lundeen wrote: I guess I'll have to start doing some Google image searches for Raquel Welch pictures to bring back the memories since this thread has descended into science and stuff.... You're right! Who woulda thought it? Speaking of which, there's this thing about how they can see at that size...
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:38 pm |
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Rick Hannah wrote: (T)Eddy wrote: If they were to base the screenplay on Isaac Asimov's novelization, I'd be more interested. Hope they make clear there is a valid REASON for the woman to come along, aside from sex appeal. Does he explain how they can breathe? I think he did explain that they shrunk all the atoms, including the air in the ship. When they "refilled" their tanks by visiting the guy's lungs, he also explained that the sub had a machine on board that could shrink the air they took from the lungs. Handy that thing.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:39 pm |
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(T)Eddy wrote: Rick Hannah wrote: (T)Eddy wrote: If they were to base the screenplay on Isaac Asimov's novelization, I'd be more interested. Hope they make clear there is a valid REASON for the woman to come along, aside from sex appeal. Does he explain how they can breathe? If you look at the original movie, Rachel Welch's character does NOTHING. In the book, she is supposedly a laser expert, but it's the DOCTOR who repairs the laser after it gets sabotaged. I have no problem with casting a beautiful woman as a scientist, but beef up the writing so that you can BELIEVE she's a scientist. There are three female characters in the movie Hollow Man, and I can easily believe that they are scientists. As for how they can breathe, the answer is obvious---the air in the Proteus is miniaturized along with the ship. In fact, in the book they have to miniaturize the air coming in through Benes' lungs before they can use it. Whoops. Eddy beat me to it.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:45 pm |
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When Einstein was alive and watching Sci-Fi movies, he had what he called the Science to Cup Size Quotient (Or the popular name: E= m C-Cup²).
Any degree of questionable science in a feature film is offset by an additional cup size on the leading lady.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:46 pm |
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RobertSwanderson wrote: When Einstein was alive and watching Sci-Fi movies, he had what he called the Science to Cup Size Quotient (Or the popular name: E= m C-Cup²).
Any degree of questionable science in a feature film is offset by an additional cup size on the leading lady. So a movie with a starlet with a JJ cup need not have any internal logic whatever, correct?
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:48 pm |
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James C. Taylor wrote: RobertSwanderson wrote: When Einstein was alive and watching Sci-Fi movies, he had what he called the Science to Cup Size Quotient (Or the popular name: E= m C-Cup²).
Any degree of questionable science in a feature film is offset by an additional cup size on the leading lady. So a movie with a starlet with a JJ cup need not have any internal logic whatever, correct? Adding Dolly Parton to the cast of Spaceballs would've made it an instructional video suitable for high school science classes.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:35 pm |
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Beachy wrote: Whoops. Eddy beat me to it. No need to apologize. On another thread, I overlooked that Linda had posted the same wrestling clip that I had. What I think would be a good idea for the movie (although they probably won't do this) is use the portable miniaturizer to shrink down the ship once they get small enough. Makes more sense than injecting what looks like 20 gallons of miniaturized water into Benes' system. BTW, am I the only one who read Asimov's "sequel" to Fantastic Voyage. It isn't a sequel, it's an original story with characters created by Asimov---it just uses the same idea. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553273272/?tag=imwan-20
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:44 pm |
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:40 pm |
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Who would'a thunk that Marvel would eventually turn the FANTASTIC FOUR into a riff on ASTRO CITY'S FIRST FAMILY which was itself a riff on the FANTASTIC FOUR.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:49 pm |
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The Professor wrote: Who would'a thunk that Marvel would eventually turn the FANTASTIC FOUR into a riff on ASTRO CITY'S FIRST FAMILY which was itself a riff on the FANTASTIC FOUR. Yeah who da thunk the copying of ideas, though this one doesn't upset me as much since I love the First Family.
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Post subject: Fantastic Voyage (Movie) (201?) Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:12 am |
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