James Cameron may be stepping into the director’s chair for next year’s remake of “Forbidden Planet.”
Cameron is apparently interested in the project, which will be scripted by J. Michael Straczynski.  Warner Brothers is eager for the project to be Cameron’s next one after he completes work work on “Avatar.”
Cameron was previously attached to direct a “Planet” remake, following his work on “Titanic.”
As we reported on Slice of SciFi, Straczynski’s new take on the material is not a remake so much as a prequel.
The original followed a Star Cruiser investigating what happened to the colony ship Bellerophon that disappeared on a planet some two decades before. There they find the only survivors – a scientist and his daughter – and technology left behind by an advanced civilization. The rest of the colonists have been killed by a giant invisible creature that starts killing off the Cruiser’s crew.
The new “Planet” is said to deal with the launch and what happened to the crew of the Bellerophon.
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