Guillermo Del Toro In Talks For Fantastic Voyage Remake

Guillermo del Toro is reportedly in talks to helm Twentieth Century Fox's remake of Fantastic Voyage.

According to the report from THR, Pacific Rim 2 being shelved has opened up some time in the director's schedule, and so the project was brought to him for consideration.

The remake of the 1966 sci-fi classic is being handled by James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment, who had previously attempted to get del Toro's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountain of Madness off the ground. The script and treatment for the new Fantastic Voyage were written by David Goyer (Man of Steel).

Fantastic Voyage follows a group of scientists who shrink to atomic size in order to enter the body of a dying fellow scientist and save his life. In the original, the scientist was a Cold War defector who was put into a coma after an assassination attempt on his life.

Fox has not yet placed the Fantastic Voyage remake, intended as a big budget tentpole, on their release schedule.

Del Toro's involvement may change if Chinese corporation Wanda closes the deal on acquiring Legendary Pictures, the home of Pacific Rim. Del Toro's mech vs. monster film did much better in China than it did domestically, so it may be given heightened priority should the sale go through.