Independence Day and Day After Tomorrow director Roland Emmerich says he turned down a James Cameron draft for his upcoming remake of Fantastic Voyage because… it was set in the future?!
“Two years ago Jim called me up and said ‘Roland I want you to look at the script for Fantastic Voyage – it’s not there yet’. And he sent it over and I hated the script,” said Emmerich. “I said why have you put this in the future? I said let this happen now. It’s so much more cool and fun when we can say to a normal person from now, ‘well we’re going to make you microscopic and put [...]