Cameron's FANTASTIC VOYAGE in 3-D!

Turns out the "event movie set in the future" that James Cameron will be developing from a Shane Salerno (Alien vs. Predator) script won't actually be Doomsday Protocol as we, and most other websites erroneously predicted earlier today. Truth is, Cameron's re-doing Fantastic Voyage, the memorable science fiction adventure directed by Richard Fleischer in 1966, which well, what can you say - the original was a fun product of it's time, with a director and a set of actors who knew exactly how to play to the material. Recent Hollywood remakings of The Day The Earth Stood Still and The Invasion of the Body Snatchers would indicate that we simply don't have the kind of talent who know how to do that these days, and rarely does a pure sci-fi movie connect with audiences. Confirmation has come that Cameron will produce and not direct and unsurprisingly, it's gonna be in 3-D...

In the original, a small team attempts to save the life of a nearly-assassinated diplomat through a uniquely invasive surgical procedure. The magic of science allows the doctors to be shrunken down to microscopic size and injected into the ailing diplomat's body. Piloting a specialized submersible craft -- also tiny -- the team attempts to repair with the diplomat's condition -- a blood clot in his brain -- on a cellular level.

Back in the mid part of this decade, Cameron wrote a script for a futuristic Fantastic Voyage adaptation for epic go-to helmer Roland Emmerich, who quickly turned Cameron down on the basis that Emmerich wanted it to be set in the modern day. He was also concerned by the script choice of having two submarines shrink inside someone's body, effectively making it a navy seals action/war picture. A few different set of writers later, and a few more disappointments with how the script was turning out and Emmerich officially decided to bail on Fantastic Voyage, choosing instead to make 2012, which proved a highly profitable move. Ironically, Fantastic Voyage has ended up back with Cameron, who is now in the more powerful position of the producing chair. We too already know Salerno's script has the future setting, but do we also presume the navy seals idea has been kept too?