Remake - Fantastic Voyage (1966) Discussion

[–] egamer25 19 years ago

A remake would destroy this absoulutely classic film, Hollywood needs to stop ripping off plots from movies of the past, or has creativity in this world finally died completely.

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[–] eggamus 19 years ago

Isn't Innerspace a remake of fantastic voyage

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[–] booklynx 19 years ago

I read a very good novel a year or so ago entitled, Fantastic Voyage: Microchosm. Similar premise, except the submarine is injected into humans who have been contaminated. I can't remember specifically, but alien nanotechnology is transforming humans into aliens, or some such thing. Great book, with laser cannons whacking the nano-machines as they try to get rid of the sub and a great climax where they try to escape, not only the sub and the body, but the clean-room before it is torched.
I'm not sure if this is/was a pseudo sequel to the original, but a movie based on this would be a suitable sequel, as opposed to a remake. To me, a 'sequel' would be more attractive than a remake.

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[–] FrankoFerko 19 years ago

"Fantastic Voyage" and "Innerspace" refer to the very same 1966 film. If this was to be remade in 2006 or beyond, it would be likely be a battle of nanorobots... a new breed of already very boring technogadgets.

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[–] pbiasizzo 19 years ago

well said

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[–] Noel_MarquisDeMaynes 19 years ago

Innerspace (1987) is a remake. See http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0093260/

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[–] DavidSim240183 19 years ago

Whether you could call Innerspace a remake is debatable.
Fantastic Voyage was clearly the inspiration, but the plots are completely different.
It's certainly an appealing idea, a miniaturized human being travelling through the human body.
The special effects technicians could have a field day with that premise.

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[–] zaius-4 18 years ago

egamer25- my thoughts exactly.

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[–] bcademy 18 years ago

I forget the exact title, but the remake was on SciFi channel a year or two ago. They changed the role of "scientist with valuable knowledge" to "terrorist who is the only one who knows where the atom bomb is hidden." And they added laser cannon to the sub to battle antibodies and white cells.

Oh, and true to the original movie, they left the broken sub and at least one dead crew member inside the body when they expanded -- and, also true to the original, ignored this fact.

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[–] Yorick_Brown 17 years ago

That movie was the direct-to-video release called "Antibody" starring Lance Henriksen.

I think we both saw the same movie at the same time.

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-Aqualung

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[–] nosferato 18 years ago

i'm 105% sure this movie has been remade where they had to "defuse a bomb" and i can not think of the name it went straght to dvd if anyone knows the name feel free toput me out of my misery cheers

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[–] stonewaspknight 13 years ago

Innerspace is a remake of this movie.

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[–] Fargo_North 11 years ago

You could say that "Innerspace" was inspired by FV, but it's not an actual remake.

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[–] Fargo_North 11 years ago

You could say that "Innerspace" was inspired by FV, but it's not an actual remake.

"That mans' nuts!!! Grab 'em!"

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[–] TVholic 11 years ago

I normally can't stand remakes, but having seen this again recently, I think this might be an exception to that rule. I wouldn't need a ton of CGI, but I would like better acting and better effects. It really hurt that they didn't want to film this underwater for whatever reason, so the "swimming" was ridiculously and distractingly unconvincing. The other effects like bluescreen weren't good, but I'm willing to accept those as a product of that time. Young Raquel Welch was certainly easy on the eyes, but she wasn't a great actress at that age. And let's be honest. The script's science was laughable and there were plot holes galore, even within the the confines of its own science fiction reality. 40 years ago, I used to love this movie. Time hasn't been kind.

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[–] duckofprey 11 years ago

Innerspace was not a remake. Not even close. (Besides, Innerspace is a comedy).

As for those against remakes, I say poo. I am pushing 60 and remakes of classics I grew up with do not bother me at all. The main reasons is that it gives today's young a chance to see a story they likely would not see otherwise. In all likelihood less than a half of one percent of today's teens would ever see Fantastic Voyage (1966) and even less would enjoy it.

A fresh remake would open this story to new generations and to be honest, I'd love to see a remake of this myself.

There is nothing wrong with remakes in general, some a great, especially when done with the right motive.

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[–] Big G-2 11 years ago

INNERSPACE is not a remake, but the concept is there (and who is not to say the director, Joe Dante intended this as a version of FW, but done as a comedy).

I'm not against remakes because Hollywood has been doing them for decades. The problem is that many of them are simply not as good despite all the bells and whistles of modern technology.

If today's young would not want to see a movie like FANTASTIC VOYAGE, then isn't it their loss? And a remake is no guarantee that they will sit down and watch this film.

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[–] duckofprey 11 years ago

Big G2-2, the point is, one, the youth of today can't even be exposed to the 1966 version. It's RARELY on TV. (it was on last weekend on IFC, and I spotted it in the last 15 minutes. No repeat scheduled. Ugh!). Second, a remake gets major publicity and in theatres nationwide.

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[–] dpcole7 11 years ago

"Inner Space" (1986?) already did that.

Well, that movie was influenced by Fantastic Voyage and not a brainless, soulless, gutless remake.

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