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Another one that seems ripe for an update...

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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Along with Colossus: The Forbin Project, this is another of those 60s era sci-fi movies that seems like some Hollywood studio would update.

In these days of COVID and pandemics in the news, a re-make could focus on a team trying to learn more about a highly lethal super-virus or super-bacterial infection that has the potential to kill off the human race by chasing it down in the body of a carrier.

Or maybe trying to battle intelligent nanobots that have been released into a high ranking government official as part of some elaborate terrorist plot.

[–] Redsfan001 (6004) 4 years ago

A similar movie Innerspace (1987) was a bomb. Bombs are always remembered in Hollywood, and makes them too risk adverse.

I thought this movie was good but also a little silly. Audiences today might be too sophisticated for a carbon copy plot. The story would have to be significantly different, along the lines of your idea.

[–] liscarkat (16530) 2 years ago

Audiences today are no more sophisticated than they were in the 1960s. There are plenty of simplistic movies with dumb plots still being made all the time.

[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

"Innerspace" was a fun movie, I liked it, everyone I knew back then liked it.

And yeah, "Fantastic Voyage" is exactly the sort of movie that ought to be remade - a movie with a cool basic idea... but which could have been done better! That's the kind of movie you can update successfully, not the really good movies. I mean look at all the damn Disney remakes, every single one a cheap junk imitation of the original.

[–] DoctorThirteen (10226) 2 years ago

But who could possibly fill Raquel Welch's... shoes?

[–] Otter (24464) 2 years ago

Any actress who's "silicone from the nose down", as they used to say of Raquel.

[–] MikeCable (1662) 2 years ago

With today's casting choices I can see the character becoming a male from a non-English-speaking background.

But with the current pandemic going on and state of visual effects, this would be a great movie to remake. What I remember about the original is the educational aspect, as some explanation was going on as they encountered different parts of the body. But I also remember a lot of silent moments with just visual stuff going on, which would not go down too well today.

It would need to have some kind of twist also, like vaccine companies trying to stop the scientist from being saved so they've paid someone in the sub to ensure the mission fails, and someone outside of the body or on the sub works it out, so there's a secondary plot line going on.

PS. I always thought it was the president they were trying to save! I just realised it was a scientist, and one who actually developed the miniaturising technology. Been a long time since I watched it.

[–] Ace_Spade (9348) 2 years ago

If I recall correctly, he wasn't the scientist who developed the miniaturizing tech, but rather was the only guy who knew how to extend the miniaturization time frame to make it a more valuable tech.

[–] ebhaynz (3528) 4 years ago

I think there's something on the Fantastic Voyage wikipedia page that says they're developing a remake/sequel. It'll happen eventually.