Director James Cameron told SCI FI Wire at the Saturn Awards that he will begin shooting his ambitious, as-yet-untitled SF movie as soon as this November with the 3-D high-definition video cameras he developed for "Ghosts of the Abyss".
Cameron says: "I'm writing it. It's very futuristic; [it] takes place in a distant future, and [there's] lots of wild action and amazing characters and, hopefully, a very emotional journey as well. We're setting that up for release ... about this time of the year in 2006, Memorial Day or somewhere around that".
The man also revealed that he and writer Dario Scardapane ("Posse") are refining the script for a proposed remake of the 1966 SF movie "Fantastic Voyage" in which scientists shrink themselves and are inserted into the bloodstream of an ailing spy. Cameron and Dario have been working for about a year so far on the script and if it goes forward, he'll choose a director rather than helm it himself.
Cameron says "We have a pretty good script, [but it] still needs to go another iteration. How do you sell that concept to people?. For me, the thing in cracking the script, which we've done, was figuring out the social context. Because ... the first film was made in the mid '60s, I think it was '66, and it was a Cold-War-era thriller. And it was about a battle between two superpowers.
We're projecting into an age where we're looking at information totalitarianism, where in the pursuit of security in a world of terrorism, people have given up their freedom to an information state. And so, in ours, there are no good guys and bad guys. There are, you know, these two vast blocs: The Coalition and The Alliance. But really, the government is the enemy. So it's a whole different kind of spy thriller than the one in '66".
Thanks to 'Ishmael'
