Fantastic Voyage Remake may get Guillermo del Toro as Director

The film is a remake of the 1966 original, directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. The original revolved around a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent on a miniature submarine to save the life of a defecting Soviet scientist.

It’s great to see del Toro could be bouncing back rather quickly with another genre project, but ‘cmon, we were really holding out hope for Pacific Rim 2.

Pacific Rim 2 had originally been slated to hit theatres in August, 2017.

Goyer wrote the treatment for the new film and will continue to work with Del Toro. The Hollywood Reporter says that the director/writer/producer is in talks to direct and develop a re-telling of Fantastic Voyage.

Still, it’s hard not to be excited any project that would involve collaboration between Del Toro and Cameron. Matt Reilly is the one in charge of the production from 20 Century Fox’s perspective. Fox is throwing its full support behind this modern interpretation, aligning the remake as a blockbuster tentpole film – one that’s without a release date for now. The movie is a major classic that tells the story of a scientist that has developed a means of shrinking people for a short time. They also fight white blood cells. In 2010, del Toro was tapped to direct an adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft novel, At The Mountains of Madness.

Del Toro was to have followed up Crimson Peak with Pacific Rim 2, a sequel to his Legendary Pictures mechas-versus-monsters 2013 pic.

We’ll be sure to keep you posted on the development of both films.