Dec 22, 2008 by Brian Gallagher

James Cameron to Direct Forbidden Planet?

It seems that a remake that has been making headlines lately might have a big headline-making director as well. According to IESB.net, it seems that director James Cameron is interested in directing the remake of Forbidden Planet.

J. Michael Straczynski wrote the script for this remake of the 1956 sci-fi classic. It seems that Cameron was interested in this film way back in 1998 after his last major feature film, Titanic, was enormously successful, but the film fell apart. Now that Warner Bros. is resurrrecting the project, it appears that Cameron wants in again.

Of course, none of this has been confirmed by the studio, but we'll surely keep you posted on more information surrrounding this remake.


Sources: IESB.net

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  1. The Narrator: The Better Man

    J.A.Ottley, they aren't making Man Of Steel DARKER! No offense, but darker isn't always good. for a character like Batman, it fits perfectly, but for most heroes, like superman, and my fave super, Spiderman, it should stay lighter. Look at Spider man 3 trying to be dark, but Spider man 2 was awesome staying put. So no, and I think that, with Mark millers script, they won't need it to be dark it will be so epic.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  2. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    LMAO @ SH*TMACHER

    I'm not defining that they have to be entirely realistic but more realism than comic fantasy.
    For example using the source material but placing it in a more realistic believeable perspective.

    It has to be placed on the borderline of realism and campy.
    example for its time Burotn's Batman was quite realistic for its time and as it progressed it began to get more campy and when it went to Sh*tmacher, it was way over campy and beyond realism.

    Also Nolan attained this darker tone to his Batman films which captured the comic like feel, he kind of created a real world that is dark, where this Caped Crusader runs around protecting the innocent but yet impaled as a vigilante.

    Why do you think, ever upcoming comicbook to film adaptation is apparently gonna have a darker tone to it, because this dark tone for reboots and comic book films, which i've hailed with the name 'Nolanesque' was very successful with the Nolan Batman Franchise.

    Example is the upcoming Superman Reboot according to the interviews it will have a more darker tone like TDK

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  3. -comrade-

    I would say that his Batman films are praised in the cadre of other films because of that; it sounds like you're saying that only realistically grounded movies are worthy of praise in this genre. A comic book fantasy can also be critically acclaimed. Critics loved Iron Man. Just because something is cored in reality doesn't make it better. It's just something a lot of people didn't expect after the Sh*tmacher Batman movies.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  4. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    That's because Nolan is going for realism, not comic book fantasy.
    :)

    That's probably why his Batman films are praised

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  5. The Narrator: The Better Man

    I think we all agree, that if the riddler or something, like a disease or earthquake like in no mans land, made gotham into that hell hole, we would all get one of the best pieces of cinema if done right. But like comrade said, there's to many characters that don't exist in Nolan's world in it... *Sigh*. But we have Sanchez, Gordan, Alfred, Batman, and stuff. But wonder girl, robin, batgirl, and them don't exist, and two face died. again.. *sigh*.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  6. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    Ahhh i now get what you mean, so just a score / instrumental no lyrics.
    I thought that was initially what you did mean but wasn't to positive on it, lol.
    But the breaking Benjamin song, i plan to use it for 'World's Finest' not 'Batman,'
    Because the theme of the 'World's Finest' script i've created is all about loss and being driven over the edge, while one tries to maintain his sanity, the other one can't.

    But i gota agree with Comrade, if Nolan does return for a 3rd film somewhere along the borderline of No Man's Land is the path to go, with introducing Black Mask as well.
    Nolan stated he wants to do someone that hasn't been done on screen yet and Black Mask hasn't

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  7. -comrade-

    No Man's Land is such a great story. If a lot of the really good scenes didn't hinge on characters who don't exist in Nolan's universe yet, I 'd say that would be the way to go for the third film.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  8. The Narrator: The Better Man

    At J.A.Ottley, I agree with Comrade. I mean doing a song with lyrics in a batman movie would just be stupid, no offense. However, your right, the lyrics are cool. And also, no, I am not a hard core fan of Batman, but I have read some comics such as Hush, No Mans Land series, Superman V.S. Batman, the Killing Joke and few others. And from what I have read in comics, your script sounds pretty cool.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  9. -comrade-

    Batman isn't cold. He's just pragmatic.
    I understand the parallels, and I'm glad that it helped your writing process.
    I just think that trying using it in the films would be disastrous. Any spoken word songs in a Batman film would smack of commercial crap. I could definitely see doing a Batman music video for the song though.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  10. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    Probable but it fits with the theme of the 'World's Finest' universe that i've created
    I can link the words to visuals that you would actually see in a Batman movie and the music is hyped up enough for a face-off style theme.
    lyrics to visual exampular
    "If you find your family, don't you cry"
    (How bout a little Bruce Wayne crying at his parents murder in the alleyway)

    Also the cold-like-theme of the song kind of describes Batman's personality

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  11. -comrade-

    The lyrics perhaps, but the sound of the music is so juvenile.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  12. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    For my Batman saga at the moment, i have the main basis for the idea, which is what will drive Batman.

    A brief outline and themes of each movie, some have installed scenes with them like the joker one i described down below, but its put in more detail and obvious with dialogue.
    One of my favourtie lines from the Joker that he says to Batman is
    'You will lose everything, hiding yourself behind a mask and a cape...All heroes fall, someday and someday soon yours is coming'

    And i also got villain origins, outlines, connections with other villains and i've also been keeping up to date with all the Batman stories i have like god knows, how many Batman comics i have, but roughly over 15 thousand probably more than 20.

    So far the saga has 4 installment, plus 2 sub stories (NightWing & (possibly Robin).
    Also another 1 which leads into a kind of Arkham Asylum film, and i'm trying to link in the 'World's Finest' movie with my saga, which i've already created a complete plot outline for.
    But the Batman series needs to go further on that what it has within the movie area, for my World's Finest movie to be possible, i don't want to drop people somewhere within the Batman/Superman universe and they have no clue where they are on storyline basis or continuity. But the story i've created for 'World's Finest' is original and enough to drive Batman and Superman over the edge.

    I've also penned, World's Finest with a theme song, which is 'Breaking Benjamin - So Cold'
    The song would have worked so beautifully with The Dark Knight as well, or any Batman film because of the lyrics.

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  13. -comrade-

    Do you have a character net or some sort of overview for your trilogy you would be comfortable sending me?

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  14. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    You could also be hating as well because the difference between me and you is erm yeah i kinda have this thing called a...PORTFOLIO.
    You know one of those things you use to keep and showcase your work.
    But well haters are haters, they just hate because you do what they can't, well that my philsophy on them

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  15. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    LOL @ Comrade response.

    Well each to their own opinion, Killerman, you see my day job is directing, producing and writing Mediatrical projects, and guess what i'm 18yrs old and also a student within media and one thing you learn on the subjectional term of being in the area of media is... CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.

    At least i know how to handle it mate, your probably just saying that because you feel like i've some how insulted you on here through the arguments we've had on the Movieweb forums, but like i said before, your opinion not the rest of the world's.

    Fallen thought is wasn't bad, and my friends throught it was amazing, in which majority of them are hardcore Batman fans.
    I'm not sure if Fallen is a hardcore Batman Fan, but i know his read Y: The Last Man, which needless to say is one epic comic franchise, so he has got great taste in comics.

    I also study psychology, crimonology, General Law and sociology, hence why i got a memory like carving on silver

    But i only gave a brief description of the scene and how i've complexingly created my Joker and the inspirations behind his character were.
    I've also obviously gathered Killerman that your not to big of a comic book fan or reader, since you would have realised the inspiration behind that scene i breifly described is inspired by one of the Best Batman Graphic Novels.

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  16. -comrade-

    Killerman: You're not the devil. You're an idiot.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  17. The Narrator: The Better Man

    Haha. well J.A. Ottley, I think your scene ain't bad. Its pretty cool, and if you believe in your script go through with it. As for killerman, I now agree with err. its just funny now that I think of it.

    3 years agoby @narratorFlag

  18. -comrade-

    I'm sure she's a super gal. Especially when your main reason for proposing to her is to get her to submit to sodomy. I bet it makes you feel good. I bet it helps you hold back the tears that fight their way through when you think about how mind-numbing and soul-crushing your job is.
    Good luck proposing, by which I mean when she says no, I hope she can get the f*ck away from you before you go off on some insane rage and try to kill her and rape her corpse.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  19. Err

    hahaha.
    i like killerman i think hes funny. i also like reading the arguments that ensue when you guys get all hot n bothered over something he says.
    takes me back to the old "civil cowboy' days if 'civil cowboy' had a brain.

    anyway i always confuse forbidden planet with 'lost in space' but either way if james cameron directs AND it is NOT an epic love story then i will definitely watch it.

    3 years agoby @err2005Flag

  20. killerman200

    Hey, hey, hey. Well, speak of the devil right, bitches. I just got bored with you guys. I can't argue with the same people, too long. Your comments bore the hell out of me. Well, Sara, my girlfriend, soon to be fiance, wish me luck, hasn't let me butt f*ck her since back in maybe '03. Sorry J.A., but i think your scene sucks. Take my advice. Don't give up on your day job. Nough said.

    3 years agoby @killerman200Flag

  21. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    i thing maybe killerman did die?

    He hasn't been on for a while not unless his butt raping another thread

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  22. -comrade-

    I think killerman has left this thread to die.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  23. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    I agree with you, my Joker is pretty f*cked in the head well the way i created him.
    Think if you merged Ledger's Joker with Hannibal Lecter and then made him very unpredictable, you got my Joker with the nail in the batcave.
    In one scene Joker nearly attempts to kill himself.
    My friend read the first draft, and his a hardcore Batman fan, he only described the scene as the most epic Batman scene ever written.
    and that was only a fragment of the script, where Joker gets caught, kills Robin (Jason Todd) as of course Dick Grayson becomes Nightwing :) puts Barabara Gordan in a wheelchair for life.
    Before nearly killing himself all with a big bang :)

    OOOOO and in my saga some villains fight each other.

    But the whole saga of my Batman franchise journey's upon Batman trying to find out
    who murdered his parents after they saw Zorro?
    why he became what he is?
    Why his parents where murdered?
    Free Gotham from corruption?

    Also my one opens up all the side stories and side franchises of Batman, like Nightwing

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  24. -comrade-

    Yeah, I see the U.K. as probably the best place for television programmes. Most of out TV is crap, but I own a lot of the stuff that actually makes it over here.

    I like that, I think people need to be less opposed to adaptations of characters. If the idea is good, why should we oppose multiple interpretations?

    I did short film screenplays for some friends in high school, but now I'm working on a lot of prose.

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  25. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    I work inside the UK at the moment but i'm hoping to expand myself, obviously films are more mainstream in the U.S than they are over here in the U.K

    I'm an ambitious person that wants to kind of change the movie industry.
    I've even written my own Batman script, which is kind of a mergeance between the comics and Nolan's universe of Batman.
    The only downfall i got from my Batman script trilogy is that Robin is intorduced to early, but that's only to be whacked by the Joker.

    But obviously i don;t hope to create it just yet, just until a decade and a while after Nolan finishes his.

    When you say native..
    Do you mean born in the UK or outside, or do kinda mean it through bloodline.
    Because i'm born in the UK but i'm a quarter English, German, Greek & Egyptian, which i know is quite a rare unusual combination, lol i feel like a recipe.

    What about yourself, have yu wrote any scripts?

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  26. -comrade-

    Awesome. You work out of the U.K., are you native?

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  27. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    Thanks, will do. :)

    When i go back to college i plan to put all my work on youtube, so hopefully by sometime in Jan, it should all be up there.
    But when it is i'll let ya know :)

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  28. -comrade-

    You're ambitious, and you seem to be producing some relevant work for a student. Keep me posted!

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  29. J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director

    It was just an opinion, as you see my sarcism is dramatic in my previous comment.

    Fools always suffer in the end

    I've produced 2 student music videos.

    A first issue of a graphic novel entitled Death Sentence, i wrote and illustrated as well.

    I've directed and written an advert for MTV about knife crime.

    I've directed, produced & Written a short campy Horror film called 'Prey,' which i wrote while on the UK Set of TDK, it was originally meant to be a sci-fi film but due to hardly having no budget i transferred it into a horror.

    I also wrote and directed a 2minute short film called 'The Liar'

    I also co-wrote a play called 'Lost For Words' at Hackney Empire.

    I'm now currently working on a few scripts and writing, producing and directing my next film called 'Guardian Angel.'
    Which bases itself around the consequences of bullying and the compassion and love of revenge and protecting the one you love.

    But i've done all that in 2 years at college

    3 years agoby @chronicFlag

  30. -comrade-

    And your life is just a never-ending horror, because you'll never climb out of the gray little hole you've carved for yourself. Go punch in more insurance policy numbers while you wait in desperation for new DVD day to arrive so you can grab the Santa's Slay special addition and go home and snap one off to it.

    Why do you always finish your statements with "Nough said" and then continue? "Nough said" implies that you are happy with your stupid little insult and have finished. Seriously, you've done it like five times and apparently you've never actually "said enough".

    Ottley: Don't you dare call me a moron. I just refuse to suffer fools. What did you produce?

    3 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

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