Despite apparently pretty solid reports at the end of March that director Paul Greengrass was signing up to the remake of the 1966 sci-fi flick Fantastic Voyage, we're now hearing that he's dropped out of the project that James Cameron is producing. According to Deadline Hollywood, the Green Zone and The Bourne Ultimatum director wants to focus instead on developing the newly discovered Warner Bros. adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel Treasure Island, with Sherlock Holmes producer Lionel Wigram . Greengrass was never officially locked in to direct Fantastic Voyage , so this isn't exactly Earth-shattering news, but at the same time, he's also not committed to Treasure Island just yet, as they are still trying to secure a writer.
Cameron and fellow producer Jon Landau never confirmed Greengrass' official attachment to the project, but since he was being courted for the role he was in fact the first and so far only director to see Shane Salerno's much buzzed about script. All that will change soon enough though, as Cameron and Landau are on the hunt again for a big-name director to take on this 3D high-concept story about a team of scientists who are shrunk to atomic size and sent on a miniature submarine inside the body of a scientist. So, who can you see directing the big-budget movie? Leave us your suggestions in the comments box below...
Source: Screenrush
