David Goyer Joins James Cameron for*Fantastic Voyage
David Goyer*is joining*James Cameron*on*The Fantastic Voyage.
Goyer, who has guided the screen story for*The Dark Knight*trilogy and*Man of Steel,has been tapped to write the treatment for the remake of the 1966 sci-fi classic which is being made by Fox and Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
Cameron,*Jon Landau, and Rae Sanchini*are producing through their Lightstorm banner. Goyer will also executive produce.
Voyage*has long been in development and has seen many a scribe come and go,*Shane Salerno, Cormac*andMarianne Wibberly,*and*Laeta Kalogridis*among them.
The project has been quiet since 2011 but Goyer's involvement kick-starts and will re-engineer what the studio and producers hope to be an event-sized tentpole. It is also now placing the project on the fast track.
Matt Reilly*is the studio's point man on the project.
Voyage*revolves around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent in a miniature submarine inside the body of a scientist to save his life. The original movie was set during the Cold War, and the scientist was a defector who was in a coma after an assassination attempt.
Goyer, a screenwriter in his own right, has made a name for himself as an architect for tentpoles and franchises. He is writing the screenplay and wrote the story for Warner Bros.; sequel to*Man of Steel, the so-far-untitled Batman-Superman movie. He also wrote the treatment for*Sandman, adapting the DC/Vertigo series as a*possible directing vehicle for*Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He is attached to direct*The Breachfor Lionsgate.
David Goyer*is joining*James Cameron*on*The Fantastic Voyage.
Goyer, who has guided the screen story for*The Dark Knight*trilogy and*Man of Steel,has been tapped to write the treatment for the remake of the 1966 sci-fi classic which is being made by Fox and Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
Cameron,*Jon Landau, and Rae Sanchini*are producing through their Lightstorm banner. Goyer will also executive produce.
Voyage*has long been in development and has seen many a scribe come and go,*Shane Salerno, Cormac*andMarianne Wibberly,*and*Laeta Kalogridis*among them.
The project has been quiet since 2011 but Goyer's involvement kick-starts and will re-engineer what the studio and producers hope to be an event-sized tentpole. It is also now placing the project on the fast track.
Matt Reilly*is the studio's point man on the project.
Voyage*revolves around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent in a miniature submarine inside the body of a scientist to save his life. The original movie was set during the Cold War, and the scientist was a defector who was in a coma after an assassination attempt.
Goyer, a screenwriter in his own right, has made a name for himself as an architect for tentpoles and franchises. He is writing the screenplay and wrote the story for Warner Bros.; sequel to*Man of Steel, the so-far-untitled Batman-Superman movie. He also wrote the treatment for*Sandman, adapting the DC/Vertigo series as a*possible directing vehicle for*Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He is attached to direct*The Breachfor Lionsgate.
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