Sometimes I feel badly for Guillermo del Toro. He's such a tremendous visionary fantasist, yet he's caught some bad breaks. He lost his shot at The Hobbit; he's had his dream adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness collapse just when it looked like it would finally get made. His recent mounting of Pacific Rim 2 collapsed at Legendary, and he kind of took it on the chin with the reviews for Crimson Peak - which I still haven't seen (it comes to home video on February 9th).
So today's news made me smile, as it looks like Guillermo is circling a project that feels like a perfect fit, a remake of the 1966 sci-fi classic, Fantastic Voyage, with a real Big Kahuna providing support - James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment.
Fantastic Voyage is the cracking yarn of a team of scientists who are miniaturized down to near atomic size aboard a tiny submarine and injected into the body of a Cold War defector to save his life. If you've never seen it, it's amazing, and a heck of a good way to get younger folks interested in biology and science. Raquel Welch helps, too.
This iteration of Fantastic Voyage is from a treatment by David Goyer (who wrote del Toro's Blade 2) with Justin Rhodes. Cameron has been trying to get this up and running for several years - Paul Greengrass was circling at one point - so del Toro's availability and interest bodes really well. This just feels like a good idea.
Here's wishing Guillermo all the best on this one, and a remake that could be well worth the trip.
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