This movie really should be remade... who would be a good cast?

Your intentions are great, this movie is overlooked as a gem of 60's Sci-Fi. But I don't see a remake as being necessary. Granted remakes are hardly ever necessary unless the director is taking us in a completely different direction. One example of that would Scorsese's remake of "Cape Fear". According to an interview he did at the time he said he like the first version of "Cape Fear" but he felt the family in the movie was far too innocent and goodie-goodie, he wanted there to be conflict within the family. While I didn't enjoy his vision, I appreciated his effort and saw that he wasn't just retelling the story with a current group of actors, he was really telling the story with a whole new dramatic twist. So a remake was justified for him.

Being a big fan of "Fantastic Voyage" I don't know what else could be done to make it really better. Of course CGI would be employed to improve the effects, but frankly I think the visuals in this movie are very beautiful and making them more realistic wouldn't make them better. Even the effects for "Inner Space" were probably more realistic of human body internals than this movie, but they weren't beautiful to look at.

As for the plot, I'm sure some juggling of the roles to make the bad guy into a bad girl, or make the hero a black guy or make the good doctor blind or some other gimmick could be dreamed up but again it wouldn't make it better.

And doing a remake of any movie just to plug in current actors is a waste of time to me. So I guess for there to be a remake of "Fantastic Voyage" that I would want to see it would have to be done by a director who really had a vision going off in a completely different direction. I don't know what that is but then I'm not the creative sort, so who knows.

As for the science in this movie, of course there's the issue of the mass not being reduced and thus the sub would still weigh tons and crush the floor tiles. But I read one solution to this would be for the entire lab to be in outer space and thus with no gravity to worry about you just have to keep the velocities down to avoid any problems with mass. I agree this is pretty farfetched but it's better than Asimov's idea about reducing Planck's Constant. "Hey Isaac, that's why the call it a CONSTANT, it can't be changed, man."

tmw

the movie was redmade. remember inner space? ok it wasnt a straight remake but it was the same idea

dude! right on! that's what I was thinking! I mean, they are remaking all the other famous movies, so now they should redo Fantastic Voyage, with all the new technology! right on man!

They should remake it with Martin Short, Douglas Quaid and... wait a second...

"Darling it's better, down where it's wetter"
- Sebastian

i beleive there was a remake called Inner Space starring Dennis Quaid

and completely do a Homeopathy job on it and SUCK the entire essence out of it and make it seem like Third world Paranoia garbage... all dark and dank EW.

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MOST of the 60's effects hold up far better than todays easy to spot CGI crap.
We can thank Fox's resident SPFX genius LB Abbott for this.
The PROTEUS should be left as is-except maybe digital readouts, keybooards and screens.

The one problem with the film-even if the antibodies 'devour' the ship into pulp, that pulp is still going to grow back into a hulking mess, roughly the mass and size of the original sub, thus exploding the patient.

Issac Asimov was smart enough to write that out of the novel- I beleive the divers 'coaxed' the antibodies that were eating the sub to follow them, and then, as in the film, they were plucked out of the eye in a tear on a glass slide, and all grew back to original size and mass.

"come on, folks, let's take a look at some of the promising SciFi flicks of the 1960's and imagine the possibilities!"

I would rather just watch and enjoy the original flicks. I'm not against remakes as some have been good...but I can't think of any movie that I enjoy and think to myself- "This movie is good, they should remake it." If it did get remade I would go into it with an open mind and I could get lucky and find another The Thing or The Fly, but most likely it would be another Psycho or Planet of the Apes.
Personally I don't think any movie should be remade just so we can see it done with CGI...I'm still more impressed with the effects in the original King Kong than in Peter Jackson's version.

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