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When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him. When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him. When a blood clot renders a scientist comatose, a submarine and its crew are shrunk and injected into his bloodstream in order to save him.

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Harry Kleiner
David Duncan
Otto Klement
Stephen Boyd
Raquel Welch
Edmond O'Brien
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Trivia When filming the scene where the other crew members remove attacking antibodies from Raquel Welch for the first time, director Richard Fleischer allowed the actors to grab what they pleased. Gentlemen all, they specifically avoided removing them from Welch's breasts, with an end result that Fleischer described as a "Las Vegas showgirl" effect. He pointed this out to the cast members - and on the second try, the actors all reached for her breasts. Finally, Fleischer realized that he would have to choreograph who removed what from where, and the result is seen in the final cut.
Goofs The amount of radioactive material for the sub would not need a lead carrying case. Grant proves this by removing the container from the case with no protection and handing it to Owens who inserts it into the reactor, again bare-handed.

[as the submarine enters the brain]

Dr. Duval : Yet all the suns that light the corridors of the universe shine dim before the blazing of a single thought...

Grant : ...proclaiming in incandescent glory the myriad mind of Man.

Dr. Michaels : Very poetic, gentlemen. Let me know when we pass the soul.

Dr. Duval : The soul? The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity, and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite.

Dr. Michaels : Yes, but our time isn't.

Alternate versions The DVD edition has the following prologue: "The makers of this film are indebted to the many doctors, technicians and research scientists, whose knowledge and insight helped guide this production" The TV/Video version features this prologue instead: "This film will take you where no one has ever been before; no eye witness has actually seen what you are about to see. But in this world of ours where going to the moon will soon be upon us and where the most incredible things are happening all around us, someday, perhaps tomorrow, the fantastic events you are about to see can and will take place."
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Fantastic Voyage

A 1966 Science Fiction film, directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Stephen Boyd , Raquel Welch , Edmond O'Brien, and Donald Pleasence , about a shrinking machine used to send a mini submarine and its crew inside the body of a defecting scientist.

During the Cold War , both the United States and " The Other Side " have discovered the shrinking technology, which is limited in practicality because of how short-lived the effect is. But the scientist Jan Benes (Jean Del Val) had discovered how to overcome the limit, and enemy agents will stop at nothing to prevent the secret from escaping from behind the Iron Curtain. Benes, wounded in an attack, is comatose and dying from a externally inoperable bloodclot, so the U.S. miniaturization taskforce organizes an expedition to be shrunken to remove the clot from the inside, operating on it at the cellular level.

But for the same reason they need to save the scientist, they have a time limit to get out of the body (or they'll grow back to normal size while inside of it). Even further, an enemy agent is trying to stop them; the protagonist Charles Grant (Boyd), who smuggled the scientist from behind the Iron Curtain, has to make sure the mission succeeds while not knowing who he can trust on the crew.

The film also received a novelization by Isaac Asimov , as well as an Animated Adaptation . Very often homaged or parodied — see "Fantastic Voyage" Plot .

This film and its novelization provide examples of:

And several years later he wrote a from-scratch "remake"-slash-"sequel", Fantastic Voyage 2: Destination Brain , that attempted to clean up even more of the science and plot problems.
Asimov also wrote an essay discussing the science problems brought by the premise of the movie, as among others how to miniaturize the sub and its crew, to be able to see when wavelengths of visible light are larger than the eyes of the crew, and getting air from the lungs when molecules are not much smaller than the submarine.
All for Nothing : In one version of the script, the team saves Benes, but Benes suffers from amnesia and does not remember how to achieve unlimited miniaturization .
all lowercase letters : The opening and closing credits for the film.
It isn't clear if the whirlpool was a freak accident or if Michaels knew about it somehow and navigated the Proteus there on purpose.
Grant insists his snapping safety line in the lungs must have been tampered with. This serves to increase the suspicion around Duval. But it could have been an accident, especially since the forces were described as "incredible," and because it's not clear when (or why) Michaels might have tampered with it.
Did Michaels deliberately navigate them through the lymph system, hoping that it might clog the engines? Or simply slow them down? Or did it have nothing to do with sabotage, and Michaels was earnestly concerned about the (justified) dangers of going through the ear?
One sexist example: antibodies tend to flood an area and attach themselves at random to anything they can. They wouldn't distinguish Cora from Grant, and would attack them both. Apparently, they wanted a Damsel in Distress moment instead.
Bald of Evil : Michaels
Bigger on the Inside : Played With — The Proteus was built as a single set, with removable exterior panels to allow filming. However, some have argued that the remaining volume is insufficient for the air tanks, engines, etc.
The Big Board : A vertical diagram of the scientist's body, where the location of the Proteus is marked.
Big "NO!" : Carter gets a few of these when things look bad.
Blob Monster : The White Cells
The Brigadier : General Carter, the commander of a scientific research division, who sends them into the body to save Benes and his knowledge.
Buried Alive : Michaels attributes his claustrophobia to having been trapped beneath rubble during the Blitz.
The Chains of Commanding : Carter is determined to have them get through the body, and takes some great risks to do so, but is clearly torn up over it.
The Coconut Effect : Deoxygenated blood is actually maroon , not blue. Blue is simply how systemic veins look from the outside when seen through human skin, and how deoxygenated blood vessels are illustrated to distinguish them from their oxygenated counterparts. But of course the film's lava lamp blobs - er, erythrocytes - turn from blue to red as they pick up oxygen in the lungs...
Communications Officer : Grant's cover
Cool Ship : The Proteus
Defector from Commie Land : Benes, who holds the secret to unlimited miniaturization.
Determinator : It's far more pronounced in the book, but Carter will do anything within reason he can to see the mission succeed, even induce cardiac arrest so they can travel through Benes' heart safely.
Elaborate Underground Base : CMDF HQ
Energy Weapon : The surgical laser, it has a constant beam and slices cleanly through what it's aimed at — but would a doctor really be using a rifle for brain surgery?
Fanservice : Raquel Welch is in the movie, wearing a skintight Latex Space Suit . 'Nuff said.
"Fantastic Voyage" Plot : The Trope Namer
Future Spandex : Under the neat white jumpsuits. Justified, both for the Fanservice, and because they're neoprene diving suits.
Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower : A variation. The crew inside Benes's body must make a quick exit before they grow back to their normal size, taking one of the tear ducts as their only possible route. The supervising scientists then discover them swimming in Benes's tears as if they are in a pool.
Got Volunteered : Grant is not happy to be selected for the mission once he finds out what it entails, but he isn't given much choice.
Government Agency of Fiction : C ombined M iniature D eterrent F orces (CMDF).
Hammer and Sickle Removed for Your Protection : The Soviet Union and its allies are only referred to as "The Other Side".
High-Tech Hexagons : The shrink ray room had hexagons all over the floor. The ship rose up on one of them once it got small enough, so that it could be shrunk one more time, and then readied for insertion into the guy's body.
Hollywood Atheist : Michaels. Does it come as any surprise to the 1960s audience that the non-believer turns out to be the traitor?
If I Wanted You Dead... : In the novelization, Grant eventually figures out the identity of the mole by realizing that the acts of sabotage that seem to implicate various crew members would have been far more effective if those crew members had in fact committed them using their specialized skills note Owens could have sabotaged the ship in a way that could not be fixed, Cora could have sabotaged the laser in a way that would not be visible, but would either prevent its use or make it so inaccurate that Benes would be killed, Duval figures out a way to save Grant when he is lost in the lungs, and could have just let him die . The one exception is Michaels, the only one who could have mis-navigated them into a circulatory whirlpool that nearly destroyed the ship.
Incredible Shrinking Man : The whole plot to the story involves a surgical team and their sub being shrunk to microbe size to laser away at the life-threatening clots Benes developed.
Insufferable Genius : Duval, the surgeon. In the novel he's more of a Dr. Jerk with No Social Skills .
Latex Space Suit : As Homer Simpson has been known to observe, the crew get to wear skintight diving suits when venturing out of the sub. This is actually quite justified, in that wetsuits are less complex than space suits and do indeed have to be quite figure-hugging — but any movie that gets Raquel Welch into a costume on those lines may be suspected of fanservice .
Played straight, however, in the heart scene. "60 seconds" of cardiac arrest actually lasts for over 3 minutes of film, probably to draw out the dramatic tension and the special effects.
Mega-Microbes : Inverted — Tiny Humans, normally sized Microbes...
The Navigator : Dr. Michaels, who steers the vessel through the body, being the member of the group who is most aware of what goes where in anatomical terms.
No Ending : The film ends with the Proteus destroyed, Michaels gobbled up by a white blood cell, and the rest of the crew escaping the scientist's brain through his tear duct, de-miniaturising on a microscope slide. There is no explanation for what actually happens afterwards. There was an extra scene at the end of the film that explained what happened next but for whatever reason it was cut out. See "Shaggy Dog" Story below.
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup : Benes apparently did not keep any notes of his process. Justified in that he probably destroyed any notes he took to keep The Other Side from getting hold of them before he defected.
Nothing Is Scarier : Specifically, a lack of soundtrack is frequently used to build suspend. The first bit of "soundtrack" music comes after Acts I and II. There is no soundtrack at all in the ship's approach to the dangerous heart. The soundtrack is similarly absent while the crew are in the ear, to heighten the suspense around needing "complete silence."
Race Against the Clock : After miniaturization, the team has 60 minutes to complete their mission before they start to de-miniaturize.
The Radio Dies First : Technically, the laser dies first — the wireless is cannibalized to fix it.
Scenery Porn : The body interior sets, built full scale.
Seeker White Blood Cells : White blood cells are mentioned but not seen until the near end; antibodies make an earlier appearance.
"Shaggy Dog" Story : In the original screenplay, Dr. Benes awakens from the operation having recovered, but is unfortunately unable to remember how to make the shrinking process work indefinitely due to the blood-clot , rendering the heroes' efforts all for naught (other than having saved his life). This was included in the Asimov novelisation and surviving production stills suggest this was how the film was supposed to end as well, but it was removed - perhaps to prevent audiences from feeling that the heroes' efforts - and therefore the audience's time - had been wasted.
Shrink Ray : The non-portable variety, used chiefly as a research tool due to the time limit making military uses non-viable (it's also the variety that can expand as well as shrink note The novel notes the potential of entomologists using the tech - "Ants blown up to the size of locomotives for easier study" ).
The Smurfette Principle : Cora is the only female member of the team (and the only female speaking part in the movie). Colonel Reid complains that a woman has no place on such a dangerous mission.
Square-Cube Law : Why Isaac Asimov was initially reluctant to write the novelisation — he thought that being miniaturised was impossible because of this. Nevertheless, he decided it would make for some good writing and came up with a novelisation that is almost as hard as science fiction can be, ignoring the physical impossibility of miniaturisation.
Stating the Simple Solution : It takes a bit before Carter thinks to put cotton in Benes' ears to lessen the risk when they are traveling through the eardrum.
In the novelization, the mole is played with more subtlety. Michaels avoids the blatant panic attacks of his movie incarnation, and serves as Grant's mentor about miniaturization; the two even discuss possible suspects throughout the story — including themselves. (Grant admits that Michaels' theory that The Other Side could have let Grant escape with Dr. Benes to build his reputation is reasonable, if nothing else.)
To the Batpole! : The Elevator to CMDF HQ.
The War Room : The CMDF Operating Theater
What Happened to the Mouse? : A number of elements that should be problematic are ignored: the wreckage of the Proteus , and Dr. Michaels' body, after being eaten by the white blood cell — somehow that keeps them from re-enlarging once time runs out. This is one of the most memorable plot holes of the film, and Asimov made sure to close it in his novelization. Massively averted by the novelization, which accurately depicts, as well as we know (or, at least, as well as we knew in 1966), what it would be like if humans could in fact be miniaturized to this degree. Even Brownian Motion (random molecular motion of a fluid or gas) is noticed and commented on. Most of the flaws of the movie are explained or elaborated on so as to be acceptable to reality, making the book as much a corrective Retcon as a novelization.
The World Is Just Awesome : Well not the world , but this describes Duval's feelings about their journey though the body.
Zeerust : Varies — Being set 20 Minutes into the Future in 1960s, some elements, like the laser rifle don't hold up well, while the Proteus itself varies from a sleek futuristic but practical exterior, to an interior that could be considered Used Future . What dates the film most of all are the '60s contemporary elements, such as computers, cars and uniforms.
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Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage is an American animated science fiction TV series based on the famous 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer. The series consists of -hour episodes, airing Saturday mornings on ABC-TV from September 14, 1968, through January 4, 1969, then rebroadcast the following fall season. The series was produced by Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox. A Fantastic Voyage comic book, based on the series, was published by Gold Key and lasted two issues.

The show was later broadcast in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel's Cartoon Quest , from 1992 to 1996.

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Headquarters: CMDF--Combined Miniature Defense Force. Project: Fantastic Voyage. Process: Miniaturization. Authority: Top Secret, highest clearance. Team: Jonathan Kidd, Commander. Guru, master of mysterious powers. Erica Lane, doctor, biologist. Busby Birdwell, scientist, inventor, builder of the Voyager. Mission: In their miniaturized form, to combat the unseen, unsuspected enemies of freedom. Time limit: Twelve hours.

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Fantastic Voyage is the story of the C.M.D.F. also known as (Combined Miniature Defense Force), a secret United States government organization that possessed the ability to reduce people to microscopic size.

The main characters were Commander Jonathan Kidd; biologist Erica Lane; scientist Busby Birdwell; and a "master of mysterious powers" known only as Guru. The team was reduced in size for its missions, each miniaturization period having a time limit of 12 hours, and it traveled around in a microscopic flying submarine, the Voyager, doing battle against the unseen, unsuspecting enemies of the free world, both criminal and germinal matter. The missions of the team were given out and supervised by Professor Carter, in charge of the miniaturization process, and a character usually referred to as "the Chief" (presumably the overall leader of the CMDF), who was always seen only in shadow. The series featured character voices provided by Marvin Miller, Jane Webb, and Ted Knight. The producers were Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott, the director was Hal Sutherland, and the music was provided by Gordon Zahler.

Changes from the film, aside from the ship's crew, included the duration of miniaturization (one hour in the film, 12 in the cartoon) and the meaning of the acronym CMDF from "Combined Miniaturized Deterrent Force" to "Combined Miniature Defense Force.

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There are currently no plans to release the series on DVD and/or Blu-ray Disc in Region 1 from 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment, although most of the series is available for viewing on YouTube, and the show was released on DVD in the United Kingdom years previously.

The complete series was released, as a 3-disc DVD set, in the United Kingdom by Revelation Films on November 21, 2011.

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Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage is an animated TV series based on the 1966 film directed by Richard Fleicher. The series consists of 17 episodes each running 30 minutes. It was run on ABC-TV from September 14, 1968 to January 4, 1969. The series was produced by Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox.

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Headquarters: CMDF, Combined Miniature Defense Force. Project: Fantastic Voyage. Process: Miniaturization. Authority: Top Secret, highest clearance. Team: Jonathan Kidd, Commander. Guru, master of mysterious powers. Erica Lane, doctor/biologist. Busby Birdwell, scientist/inventor, builder of the Voyager. Mission: In their miniaturized form, to combat the unseen, unsuspected enemies of freedom. Time Limit: 12 hours.

Overview [ ]

Fantastic Voyage is the story of the C.M.D.F. (Combined Miniature Defense Force), a secret United States government organization which possessed the ability to reduce people to microscopic size.

The main characters were Commander Jonathan Kidd; biologist Erica Lane; scientist Busby Birdwell; and a "master of mysterious powers" known as Guru. The team is reduced in size—for 12 hours only—and travel around in a microscopic flying submarine, the Voyager, doing battle against the unseen, unsuspecting enemies of the free world (both criminal and germinal matter).

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"Gathering of the Team" – September 14, 1968
"The Menace from Space" – September 21, 1968
"The Magic Crystal of Kabala" – September 28, 1968
"The Atomic Invaders" – October 5, 1968
"The Master Spy" – October 12, 1968
"The Mind of the Master" – October 19, 1968
"Gone Today, Here Tomorrow" – October 26, 1968
"The Day the Food Disappeared" – November 2, 1968
"Revenge of the Spy" – November 9, 1968
"The Hobby House" – November 16, 1968
"The Spy Satellite" – November 23, 1968
"First Men on the Moon" – November 30, 1968
"The Great Busby" – December 7, 1968
"The Barnacle Bombs" – December 14, 1968
"The Perfect Crime" – December 21, 1968
"The World's Fair Affair" – December 28, 1968
"The Most Dangerous Game" – January 4, 1969

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The series was produced by Lou Scheimer, and Norm Prescott. Hal Sutherland was the director. Music was provided by Gordon Zahler.

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ABC-TV (September 14, 1968 to January 4, 1969)

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Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner , based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby . The film is about a submarine crew who is shrunk to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain. [4] [5] [6] [7] In adapting the story for his script, Kleiner abandoned all but the concept of miniaturization and added a Cold War element. The film starred Stephen Boyd , Raquel Welch , Edmond O'Brien , Donald Pleasence , and Arthur Kennedy .

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Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it. [8] [9] Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed that the film was based on Asimov's book. Its modern and imaginative production design received five nominations at the 39th Academy Awards mostly in technical departments, winning for Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction in Color .

The movie used the concept of miniaturization in science fiction along with The Incredible Shrinking Man and inspired an animated television series of the same name .

The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for one hour. A scientist, Dr. Jan Benes, working behind the Iron Curtain , has figured out how to make the process work indefinitely. With the help of American intelligence agents, including agent Charles Grant, he escapes to the West and arrives in New York City , but an attempted assassination leaves him comatose with a blood clot in his brain that no surgery can remove from the outside.

To save his life, Grant, Navy pilot Captain Bill Owens, medical chief and circulatory specialist Dr. Michaels, surgeon Dr. Peter Duval, and his assistant Cora Peterson are placed aboard a Navy ichthyology submarine at the Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces (CMDF) facilities. The submarine, named Proteus , is then miniaturized to "about the size of a microbe", and injected into Benes' body. The team has 60 minutes to get to and remove the clot; after this, Proteus and its crew will begin reverting to their normal size, become vulnerable to Benes's immune system, and kill Benes.

The crew faces many obstacles during the mission. An undetected arteriovenous fistula forces them to detour through the heart, where cardiac arrest must be induced to, at best, reduce turbulence that would be strong enough to destroy Proteus . The crew faces an unexplained loss of oxygen and must replenish their supply in the lungs. They notice "rocks" that are actually carbon particles from smoke. Grant finds the surgical laser needed to destroy the clot was damaged from the turbulence in the heart, as it was not fastened down as it had been before: this and his safety line snapping loose while the crew was refilling their air supply lead Grant to suspect a saboteur is on the mission. The crew must cannibalize their wireless radio to repair the laser, cutting off all communication and guidance from the outside, although because the submarine is nuclear-powered, surgeons and technicians outside Benes's body are still able to track their movements via a radioactive tracer, allowing General Alan Carter and Colonel Donald Reid, the officers in charge of CMDF, to figure out the crew's strategies as they make their way through the body.

The sub enters the lymphatic system , but the reticular fibres started to interfere. The crew is then forced to pass through the inner ear, requiring all outside personnel to make no noise to prevent destructive shocks, but while the crew is removing reticular fibers clogging the submarine's vents and making the engines overheat, a fallen surgical tool causes the crew to be thrown about and Peterson is nearly killed by antibodies , but they are able to reboard the submarine in time. By the time they finally reach the clot, the crew has only six minutes remaining to operate and then exit the body.

Before the mission, Grant had been briefed that Duval was the prime suspect as a potential surgical assassin, but as the mission progresses, he instead begins to suspect Michaels. During the surgery, Dr. Michaels knocks out Owens and takes control of Proteus while the rest of the crew is outside for the operation. As Duval finishes removing the clot with the laser, Michaels tries to crash the submarine into the same area of Benes' brain to kill him. Grant fires the laser at the ship, causing it to veer away and crash, and Michaels to get trapped in the wreckage with the controls pinning him to the seat, which attracts the attention of white blood cells . While Grant saves Owens from the Proteus , Michaels is killed when a white blood cell consumes the ship. The remaining crew quickly swim to one of Benes' eyes and escape through a tear duct seconds before returning to normal size.

Stephen Boyd as Charles Grant, a CIA Agent enlisted to protect Benes
Raquel Welch as Cora Peterson, the technical assistant for Dr. Duval
Edmond O'Brien as General Alan Carter, one of the officers in charge of Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels, CMDF's medical chief and a circulatory specialist
Arthur O'Connell as Colonel Donald Reid, the operational commander for CMDF
William Redfield as Captain Bill Owens, a U.S. Navy officer who designed the Proteus for his branch's research and development program
Arthur Kennedy as Dr. Peter Duval, a top-class brain surgeon enlisted to perform the surgery on Benes
Jean Del Val as Dr. Jan Benes, the comatose scientist who perfected the formula for unlimited miniaturization
Barry Coe as communications aide
Ken Scott as a Secret Service agent
Shelby Grant as nurse
James Brolin as technician

The film was the original idea of Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby . They sold it to Fox, which announced the film would be "the most expensive science-fiction film ever made." Richard Fleischer was assigned to direct and Saul David to produce; both men had worked at the studio before. [10] Fleischer had originally studied medicine and human anatomy in college before choosing to be a movie director. Harry Kleiner was brought in to work on the script. [11]

The budget was set at $5 million. [12] The budget went up to $6 million, $3 million of which went on the sets and $1 million on test footage. [11]

The Proteus submarine was constructed as a full-size set piece 42 feet long, first seen in the "miniaturizer" room and later in scenes set outside the lung and inside the inner ear, when the cast was to be seen "swimming" (actually suspended by wires) outside the submarine. The full-size Proteus mockup contained all the interior sets that the actors are seen in to represent the interior of the submarine, with sections that could be pulled out to allow for cameras and crew to film the interior. The submarine was also constructed in miniature, including a large miniature around five feet in length that could be flown on wires in the abstract sets representing the inside of the human body. The heart and brain sets built to accommodate the five-foot miniature filled a soundstage on the Fox lot—these were filmed "dry for wet," with floating, blob-shaped elements meant to be blood cells filmed separately and composited over the footage. A smaller, 18-inch miniature of the Proteus was constructed to operate in liquid for a shot of the submarine bursting through an arterial wall early in the movie. A tiny Proteus miniature just a few inches in length was made for the miniaturization sequence to show the ship being picked up by a "precision handling device" and dropped into a large glass cylinder which was then miniaturized to become part of a syringe that would inject the Proteus into the brain-injured scientist. [13]

The film starred Stephen Boyd, making his first Hollywood movie in five years. It was the first role at Fox for Raquel Welch, who was put under contract to the studio after being spotted in a beauty contest by Saul David's wife. [14]

For the technical and artistic elaboration of the subject, Fleischer asked for the collaboration of two people of the crew that he had worked with on the production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , the film he directed for Walt Disney in 1954. The designer of the Nautilus from the Jules Verne adaptation, Harper Goff , also designed the Proteus; the same technical advisor, Fred Zendar, collaborated on both productions. [15]

At one point in the movie's preproduction it was positioned as one of the Derek Flint spy spoof movies starring James Coburn, which were produced by 20th Century Fox and Saul David. Several script pages sampled in the bonus features of the 2012 DVD release of Fantastic Voyage show Stephen Boyd's Grant character (who, like Flint, is a secret agent) being identified as Flint, and some of Flint's wisecracks about not wanting to be miniaturized survive to be uttered by Boyd's Grant in Fantastic Voyage. Years later comic actor Mike Myers proposed making an installment of his own Austin Powers spy spoof movies called Shagtastic Voyage, in which Powers would be injected into the body of Dr. Evil.

The military headquarters is 100 m × 30 m (328 ft × 98 ft) and the Proteus 14 m × 8 m (46 ft × 26 ft) . The artery, in resin and fiberglass, is 33 m (108 ft) long and 7 m (23 ft) wide; the heart is 45 m × 10 m (148 ft × 33 ft) and the brain is 70 m × 33 m (230 ft × 108 ft) . The plasma effect was produced by chief operator Ernest Laszlo via the use of multicolored turning lights, placed on the outside of translucent decors. [16]

"There are no precedents so we must proceed by trial and error", said David. [12]

Frederick Schodt 's book The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution claims that Fox had wanted to use ideas from an episode of Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka 's Astro Boy in the film, but it never credited him.

Isaac Asimov, asked to write the novelization from the script, declared that the script was full of plot holes , and received permission to write the book the way he wanted. The novel came out first because he wrote quickly and because of delays in filming. [17]

The score was composed and conducted by Leonard Rosenman . The composer deliberately wrote no music for the first four reels of the film, before the protagonists enter the human body. Rosenman wrote that "the harmony for the entire score is almost completely atonal except for the very end when our heroes grow to normality". [18]

The film received mostly positive reviews and a few criticisms. The weekly entertainment-trade magazine Variety gave the film a positive pre-release review, stating, "The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space—the body of a man." [19] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote, "Yessir, for straight science-fiction, this is quite a film—the most colorful and imaginative since Destination Moon " (1950). [20] Richard Schickel of Life magazine wrote that the rewards would be "plentiful" to audiences who get over the "real whopper" of suspended disbelief required. He found that though the excellent special effects and sets could distract from the scenery's scientific purpose in the story, the "old familiar music of science fiction" in lush new arrangements was a "true delight", and the seriousness with which screenwriter Kleiner and director Fleischer treated the story made it more believable and fun. Schickel made note of, but dismissed, other critics' allegations of " camp ." [21]

As of 2023 [ update ] , the film holds a 92% approval rating at review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes from 36 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "The special effects may be a bit dated today, but Fantastic Voyage still holds up well as an imaginative journey into the human body." [22]

According to Fox records, the film needed to earn $9,400,000 in rentals to break even and made $8,880,000, meaning it initially showed a slight loss, but television sales moved it into the black, and subsequent home video sales were almost entirely profit. [23]

The film won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three more: [24]

Academy Awards (1966)

After acquiring the film's paperback novelization rights, Bantam Books approached Isaac Asimov to write the novelization, offering him a flat sum of $5,000 with no royalties involved. In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt , Asimov writes, "I turned down the proposal out of hand. Hackwork, I said. Beneath my dignity." [17] However, Bantam Books persisted, and at a meeting with Bantam editorial director Marc Jaffe and 20th Century Fox executive Marcia Nassiter on April 21, 1965, Asimov agreed to read the screenplay.

In the novelization's introduction, Asimov states that he was reluctant to write the book because he believed that the miniaturization of matter was physically impossible, but he decided that it was still good fodder for story-telling and that it could still make for some intelligent reading. In addition, 20th Century Fox was known to want someone with some science-fiction clout to help promote the film. Aside from the initial "impossibility" of the shrinking machine, Asimov went to great lengths to portray with great accuracy what it would actually be like to be reduced to infinitesimal scale. He discussed the ability of the lights on the submarine to penetrate normal matter, issues of time distortion, and other side effects that the movie does not address. Asimov was also bothered by the way the wreck of Proteus was left in Benes. In a subsequent meeting with Jaffe, he insisted that he would have to change the ending so that the submarine was brought out. Asimov also felt the need to gain permission from his usual science-fiction publisher, Doubleday, to write the novel. Doubleday did not object, and had suggested his name to Bantam in the first place. Asimov began work on the novel on May 31, and completed it on July 23. [25]

In the film, the crew (apart from the saboteur) manage to leave Benes's body safely before reverting to normal size, but the Proteus remains inside, as do the remains of the saboteur's body (albeit digested by a white blood cell ), and several gallons (full scale) of a carrier solution (presumably saline) used in the injection syringe. Isaac Asimov pointed out that this was a serious logical flaw in the plot, [26] since the submarine (even if reduced to bits of debris) would also revert to normal size, killing Benes in the process. Therefore, in his novelization Asimov had the crew provoke the white cell into following them, so that it drags the submarine to the tear duct, and its wreckage expands outside Benes's body. Asimov solved the problem of the syringe fluid by having the staff inject only a very small amount of miniaturized fluid into Benes, minimizing its effect on him when it expands.

Asimov did not want any of his books, even a film novelization, to appear only in paperback, so in August 1965, he persuaded Austin Olney of Houghton Mifflin to publish a hardcover edition, [27] assuring him that the book would sell at least 8000 copies, which it did. [28] However, since the rights to the story were held by Otto Klement, who had co-written the original story treatment, Asimov would not be entitled to any royalties. By the time the hardcover edition was published in March 1966, Houghton Mifflin had persuaded Klement to allow Asimov to have a quarter of the royalties. [29] Klement also negotiated for The Saturday Evening Post to serialize an abridged version of the novel, and he agreed to give Asimov half the payment for it. Fantastic Voyage (abridged to half its length) appeared in the February 26 and March 12, 1966, issues of the Post. [30] Bantam Books released the paperback edition of the novel in September 1966 to coincide with the release of the film. [31] Harry Harrison , reviewing the Asimov novelization, called it a "Jerry-built monstrosity", praising the descriptions of science-fiction events as "Asimov at his best", while condemning the narrative framework as "inane drivel". [32]

Fantastic Voyage is an American animated science fiction TV series based on the film. [33] The series consists of 17 half-hour episodes, airing Saturday mornings on ABC-TV from September 14, 1968, through January 4, 1969, then rebroadcast the following fall season. The series was produced by Filmation Associates in association with 20th Century Fox . A Fantastic Voyage comic book, based on the series, was published by Gold Key and lasted two issues. [34]

A comic book adaptation of the film was released by Gold Key Comics in 1967. Drawn by Wally Wood , the book followed the plot of the movie with general accuracy, but many scenes were depicted differently and/or outright dropped, and the ending was given an epilogue similar as that seen in some of the early draft scripts for the film. [35] [36]

A parody of the film titled "Fantastecch Voyage" was published in Mad Magazine . It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by Larry Siegel in issue #110, April 1967. [37] The advertising-business-themed spoof has the crew—from L.S.M.F.T. (Laboratory Sector for Making Folks Tiny)—sent to inject decongestant into a badly plugged-up nose.

The film was adapted into a video game for Atari 2600 in 1982 by Fox Video Games . [38]

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain (1987) was written by Isaac Asimov as an attempt to develop and present his own story apart from the 1966 screenplay. This novel is not a sequel to the original, but instead is a separate story taking place in the Soviet Union with an entirely different set of characters.

Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm is a third interpretation, written by Kevin J. Anderson , published in 2001. This version has the crew of the Proteus explore the body of a dead alien that crash-lands on earth, and updates the story with such modern concepts as nanotechnology (replacing killer white cells ). [ citation needed ]

Plans for a sequel or remake have been in discussion since at least 1984, but as of the beginning of July 2015, the project remained stuck in development hell . In 1984, Isaac Asimov was approached to write Fantastic Voyage II , out of which a movie would be made. [39] Asimov "was sent a suggested outline" that mirrored the movie Innerspace and "involved two vessels in the bloodstream, one American and one Soviet, and what followed was a kind of submicroscopic version of World War III." [39] Asimov was against such an approach. Following a dispute between publishers, the original commissioners of the novel approached Philip José Farmer , who "wrote a novel and sent [in] the manuscript" that was rejected despite "stick[ing] tightly to the outline [that was sent to Asimov]." [39] "It dealt with World War III in the bloodstream, and it was full of action and excitement." [39] Although Asimov urged the publisher to accept Farmer's manuscript, it was insisted that Asimov write the novel. So, Asimov eventually wrote the book in his own way (completely different in plot from what [Farmer] had written), which was eventually published by Doubleday in 1987 as Fantastic Voyage II and "dealt not with competing submarines in the bloodstream, but with one submarine, with [an] American hero cooperating (not entirely voluntarily) with four Soviet crew members." [39] The novel was not made into a movie, however.

James Cameron was also interested in directing a remake (since at least 1997), [40] but decided to devote his efforts to his Avatar project. He still remained open to the idea of producing a feature based on his own screenplay, and in 2007, 20th Century Fox announced that pre-production on the project was finally underway. Roland Emmerich agreed to direct, but rejected the script written by Cameron. [40] [41] Marianne and Cormac Wibberley were hired to write a new script, but the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike delayed filming, and Emmerich began working on 2012 instead. [41] [42]

In spring 2010, Paul Greengrass was considering directing the remake from a script written by Shane Salerno and produced by James Cameron , but later dropped out to be replaced by Shawn Levy . It was intended that the film be shot in native stereoscopic 3D. [43]

In January 2016, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Guillermo del Toro was in talks to direct the reboot by reteaming with David S. Goyer , who was writing the film's script with Justin Rhodes with Cameron still on the film by his production company Lightstorm Entertainment . [44] In August 2017, it was reported that del Toro had postponed working on the film to completely focus on his film The Shape of Water , due to release the same year, and he would start pre-production in spring 2018 and would begin filming in the fall of the same year for a 2020 release. [45]

In April 2024, Cameron offered an update on the project: "we plan to go ahead with it very soon." [46]

The Invisible Enemy , a 1977 four-part serial of the British TV series Doctor Who is said to have been inspired by the film. In it, the Doctor 's body is possessed by an evil virus, so a doctor creates clones of his companion Leela and himself to enter his head to search for the virus and destroy it. [47]
The 1987 film Innerspace follows a similar plotline, this time concerning a test pilot being miniaturized and injected into a store clerk, although accidentally. [48]
The live-action/animated comedy film Osmosis Jones stars a white cell cop trying to stop a deadly virus from destroying the human he guards. [48] [49]

The concept of entering the human body popularized by Fantastic Voyage has been greatly influential especially in animated TV shows, of which there are several examples:

Captain Planet and the Planeteers episode "An Inside Job" features The Planeteers battling water-borne parasites in Kwame's body so that he can recover. [49]
SpongeBob SquarePants episode " Squidtastic Voyage " spoofs the film, with SpongeBob and Patrick attempting to retrieve Squidward's clarinet reed after he swallows it. [49] Other Nicktoons have used the Fantastic Voyage template, such as the Rugrats episode " The Inside Story ", involving the babies being forced to shrink down and enter Chuckie's body to retrieve a watermelon seed, [48] [49] The Angry Beavers episode, "Vantastic Voyage", where the scientists go inside Dag's body, the Fairly OddParents episode " Tiny Timmy! ", which has Timmy being shrunk down by Cosmo and Wanda to enter Vicky's body in order to study for school, and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius episode, "Journey to the Center of Carl", where Jimmy and his friends go inside Carl's body, among others. [49]
Children's educational TV series The Magic School Bus had a number of episodes involving the bus going inside a human: "For Lunch" and "Inside Ralphie" in the first season, "Flexes Its Muscles" in the second season, "Works Out" in the third season and "Goes Cellular" and "Makes a Stink" in the final season, dealing with the topics of Digestion, Germs, Body Mechanics, Circulation, Cells and Smelling respectively. [48] [49]
The Iron Man animated TV series features the episode "Iron Man, On the Inside", in which Iron Man must go inside Hawkeye to save him. [50]
Dexter's Laboratory episode " Fantastic Boyage " features Dexter attempting to inject himself into Dee Dee to find a cure for the common cold, inadvertently winding up inside his dog. [49]
Futurama episode " Parasites Lost " involves the Planet Express crew sending microscopic copies of themselves inside Fry to save him from parasites. [48] [49]
Family Guy episode " Emission Impossible " has Stewie shrinking down and going inside of Peter's testicles to prevent him and Lois from having another baby. [48] [49]
Both Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go! feature episodes in which either Beast Boy or Robin enter Cyborg's body to cure him. [50]
The Simpsons' fifteenth iteration of Treehouse of Horror sees in its third leg a trip into Mr. Burns's body to rescue Maggie after she gets shrunk down into a pill and ingested. [48] [49]
Phineas and Ferb episode "Journey to the Center of Candace" features Phineas and Ferb building a shrinking submarine to enter Isabella's chihuahua, but accidentally ending up inside their sister Candace. [49]
Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Journey to the Center of the Bat!" has Atom and Aquaman traveling through Batman's body to cure him. [49]
Regular Show episode "Cool Cubed" features Mordecai and Rigby shrinking and traveling into Thomas's brain to stop it from freezing. [49]
Rick and Morty episode " Anatomy Park " involves Rick shrinking Morty down to fit in a homeless man dressed as Santa Claus to assist with the amusement park he was trying to operate inside of him. [48] [49]
Archer two-part season 6 finale "Drastic Voyage" directly spoofs the film. [50]
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Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Harry Kleiner , based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby . The film is about a submarine crew who shrink to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair the damage to his brain. [1] [2] [3] [4] The original story took place in the 19th century and was meant to be a Jules Verne –style adventure with a sense of wonder. Template:Citation needed Kleiner abandoned all but the concept of miniaturization and added a Cold War element. The film starred Stephen Boyd , Raquel Welch , Edmond O'Brien , and Donald Pleasence .

Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it. [5] [6] Because the novelization was released six months before the movie, many people mistakenly believed the film was based on Asimov's book. [7]

The movie inspired an animated television series .

3 Production
4 Biological issues and accuracy
6.1 Awards and honors
7 Novelization
8 Comic book adaption
9.1 Related novels and comics
9.2 1968 animated television series
10.1 Innerspace (1987)
10.2 Osmosis Jones (2001)
10.3 Antibody (2002)
11 Sequel/remake plans
12 See also
13 References
14 External links

The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for a limited amount of time, depending on how small the item is miniaturized.

The scientist Dr. Jan Benes ( Jean Del Val ), working behind the Iron Curtain , has figured out how to make the process work indefinitely. With the help of the CIA , he escapes to the West, but an attempted assassination leaves him comatose with a blood clot in his brain.

To save his life, agent Charles Grant ( Stephen Boyd ), pilot Captain Bill Owens ( William Redfield ), Dr. Michaels ( Donald Pleasence ), surgeon Dr. Peter Duval ( Arthur Kennedy ), and his assistant Cora Peterson ( Raquel Welch ) are placed aboard a specially designed submarine at the C.M.D.F. (Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces) facilities. The submarine, named the Proteus , is then miniaturized and injected into Benes. The ship is reduced to one micrometer , giving the team one hour (60 minutes) to remove the clot. After the 60 minutes have elapsed, the Proteus and its crew will begin to revert to its normal size, become vulnerable to Benes's immune system, and (in the words of Asimov's novelization) "kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery."

The crew faces many obstacles during the mission. An arteriovenous fistula forces them to detour through the heart, where cardiac arrest must be induced to avoid turbulence, through the inner ear (all outside personnel have to remain silent to prevent turbulence) and replenish their supply of oxygen in the lungs. When the surgical laser needed to destroy the clot is damaged, it becomes obvious there is a saboteur on the mission. They are forced to cannibalize their wireless telegraph to repair the device. By the time they finally reach the clot, they have only six minutes remaining to operate and then exit the body.

Before the mission, Grant had been briefed that Duval was the prime suspect as a potential surgical assassin. But as the mission progresses, he pieces the evidence together and instead begins to suspect Michaels. During the critical phase of the operation, Dr. Michaels knocks Owens out and takes control of the Proteus while the rest of the crew is outside for the operation. Duval successfully removes the clot with the laser, but Michaels tries to crash the sub into the clot area to kill Benes. Grant fires the laser at the ship, causing it to veer away and crash. Michaels is trapped in the wreckage and killed when white blood cells attack and destroy the Proteus. Grant saves Owens from the ship and they all swim desperately to one of Benes's eyes, where they escape through a tear duct seconds before returning to normal size. The film fails to explain how the Proteus failed to return to normal size.

The original screenplay included a follow-up scene in which it is disclosed that, because of brain damage caused by the submarine, Benes no longer remembers the formula for unlimited miniaturization. Surviving stills suggest that this scene was filmed but never used. Template:Cn

Stephen Boyd as Charles Grant
Raquel Welch as Cora Peterson
Edmond O'Brien as General Carter
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Michaels
Arthur O'Connell as Colonel Donald Reid Template:Nb10
William Redfield as Captain Bill Owens
Arthur Kennedy as Dr. Peter Duval
Jean Del Val as Dr. Jan Benes
Barry Coe as communications aide
Ken Scott as a Secret Service agent
Shelby Grant as nurse
James Brolin as technician

Production [ ]

Director Richard Fleischer had originally studied medicine and human anatomy in college before choosing to be a movie director.

For the technical and artistic elaboration of the subject, Richard Fleischer asked for the collaboration of two people of the crew he had worked with on the production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , the film he directed for Walt Disney in 1954. The designer of the Nautilus from the Jules Verne adaptation, Harper Goff , also designed the Proteus; the same technical advisor, Fred Zendar, collaborated on both productions.

The military headquarters is 100×30 metres, the Proteus 14×8. The artery, in resin and fiberglass, is 33 metres long and 7 metres wide; the heart is 45×10; the brain 70×33. The plasma effect is produced by chief operator Ernest Laszlo via the use of multicolored turning lights, placed on the outside translucent decors. [8]

Frederick Schodt 's book The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution claims that FOX had wanted to use ideas from an episode of Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka 's Astro Boy in the film, but it never credited him.

Biological issues and accuracy [ ]

In the film, the crew (apart from the saboteur) manage to leave Benes's body safely before reverting to normal size, but the Proteus remains inside, as do the remains of the saboteur's body (albeit digested by a white blood cell ), and several gallons (full scale) of a carrier solution (presumably saline) used in the injection syringe. Isaac Asimov pointed out that this was a serious logical flaw in the plot, [10] since the submarine (even if reduced to bits of debris) would also revert to normal size, killing Benes in the process. Therefore, in his novelization Asimov had the crew provoke the white cell into following them, so that it drags the submarine to the tear duct, and its wreckage expands outside Benes's body. Asimov solved the problem of the syringe fluid by having the staff inject only a very small amount of miniaturized fluid into Benes, minimizing its effect on him when it expands.

Reception [ ]

The film received mostly positive reviews and a few criticisms. The weekly entertainment-trade magazine Variety gave the film a positive pre-release review, stating, "The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space—the body of a man." [12] Bosley Crowther of the New York Times summarized, "Yessir, for straight science-fiction, this is quite a film—the most colorful and imaginative since Destination Moon " (1950). [13] Richard Schickel of Life Magazine wrote that the rewards would be "plentiful" to audiences who get over the "real whopper" of suspended disbelief required. He found that though the excellent special effects and sets could distract from the scenery's scientific purpose in the story, the "old familiar music of science fiction" in lush new arrangements was a "true delight," and the seriousness with which screenwriter Kleiner and director Fleischer treated the story made it more believable and fun. Schickel made note of, but dismissed, other critics's allegations of " camp ." [14]

Template:As of , the film holds a 92% approval rating at the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , with the consensus being: "The special effects may be a bit dated today, but Fantastic Voyage still holds up well as an imaginative journey into the human body." [15]

Awards and honors [ ]

The film won two Academy Awards and was nominated for three more: [16]

Academy Awards (1966)
American Film Institute lists
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – Nominated [17]
AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores – Nominated [18]
AFI's 10 Top 10 – Nominated Science Fiction Film [19]

Novelization [ ]

After acquiring the film's paperback novelization rights, Bantam Books approached Isaac Asimov to write the novelization, offering him a flat sum of $5,000 with no royalties involved. In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt , Asimov writes, "I turned down the proposal out of hand. Hackwork, I said. Beneath my dignity." [9] However, Bantam Books persisted, and at a meeting with Marc Jaffe and Marcia Nassiter on April 21, 1965, Asimov agreed to read the screenplay.

In the novelization's introduction, Asimov states that he was rather reluctant to write the book because he believed that the miniaturization of matter was physically impossible. But he decided that it was still good fodder for story-telling and that it could still make for some intelligent reading. In addition, 20th Century Fox was known to want someone with some science-fiction clout to help promote the film. To his credit, aside from the initial "impossibility" of the shrinking machine, Asimov made extensive use of his background in hard science and went to great lengths to portray with great accuracy what it would actually be like to be shrunk to that scale, such as the lights on the sub being highly penetrating to normal matter, time distortion, and other side effects that are completely ignored in the movie.

As noted above, Asimov was bothered by the way the Proteus was left in Benes, and in a subsequent meeting with Jaffe he insisted that he would have to change the ending so that the submarine was brought out. Asimov also felt the need to gain permission from his usual science fiction publisher, Doubleday, to write the novel. Doubleday did not object, and had suggested his name to Bantam in the first place. Asimov began work on the novel on May 31, and completed it on July 23. [20]

Asimov did not want any of his books, even a film novelization, to appear only in paperback, so in August he persuaded Austin Olney of Houghton Mifflin to publish a hardcover edition, [21] assuring him that the book would sell at least eight thousand copies, which it did. [22] However, since the rights to the story were held by Otto Klement, who had co-written the original story treatment, Asimov would not be entitled to any royalties. By the time the hardcover edition was published in March 1966, Houghton Mifflin had persuaded Klement to allow Asimov to have a quarter of the royalties. [23] Klement also negotiated for The Saturday Evening Post to serialize an abridged version of the novel, and he agreed to give Asimov half the payment for it. Fantastic Voyage appeared in the February 26 and March 12, 1966 issues of the Post. [24]

Bantam Books released the paperback edition of the novel in September 1966 to coincide with the release of the film. [25]

Harry Harrison , reviewing the Asimov novelization, called it a "Jerry-built monstrosity", praising the descriptions of science-fiction events as "Asimov at his best" while condemning the narrative framework as "inane drivel". [26]

Comic book adaption [ ]

Gold Key : Fantastic Voyage (February 1967) [27] [28]

Later adaptations [ ]

Related novels and comics [ ].

Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain was written by Isaac Asimov as an attempt to develop and present his own story apart from the 1966 screenplay. This novel is not a sequel to the original, but instead is a separate story taking place in the Soviet Union with an entirely different set of characters.

A parody of the film titled Fantastecch Voyage was published in Mad Magazine . It was illustrated by Mort Drucker and written by Larry Siegel , two members of "The Usual Gang Of Idiots", in regular issue #110, April 1967. [29] The advertising-business-themed spoof has the crew—from L.S.M.F.T. (Laboratory Sector for Making Folks Tiny)—sent to inject decongestant into a badly plugged-up nose.

1968 animated television series [ ]

Two years after the film was released, ABC aired an animated series of the same name on Saturday mornings. The series was produced by Filmation . Gold Key published a comic book based on the series.

In the series, a different team of experts performed their missions in a craft called the Voyager, a submarine which featured wedge-shaped wings and a large, swept T-tail , and was capable of flight. A model kit of the Voyager was offered by Aurora Model Company for several years, and has become a sought-after collectors' item since then.

As of June 2008, the Voyager kit has been re-released by the Moebius model company.

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Innerspace (1987) [ ].

Template:Main article In 1987, director Joe Dante made Innerspace , which reworked the story of Fantastic Voyage, but remade it as a comedy starring Dennis Quaid , Martin Short , and Meg Ryan . A test miniaturized sub and pilot are injected into a grocery store clerk in error, instead of a test rabbit as planned. Now trapped in an unwitting human's body, the pilot needs to work with the clerk to escape and stop the bad guys from trying to steal the prototype technology.

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Template:Main article Antibody , a movie closely based on Fantastic Voyage , was released on the SciFi channel in 2002. In this film a submarine with its crew is miniaturized and injected into the body of a terrorist, to prevent an attack on Washington D.C.

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Plans for a sequel or remake have been in discussion since at least 1984, but as of the beginning of July 2015, the project remained stuck in development hell . In 1984, Isaac Asimov was approached to write Fantastic Voyage II, out of which a movie would be made. [30] Asimov "was sent a suggested outline" that mirrored the movie Innerspace and "involved two vessels in the bloodstream, one American and one Soviet, and what followed was a kind of submicroscopic version of World War III." [30] Asimov was against such an approach. Following a dispute between publishers, the original commissioners of the novel approached Philip José Farmer , who "wrote a novel and sent [in] the manuscript" that was rejected despite "stick[ing] tightly to the outline [that was sent to Asimov]." [30] "It dealt with World War III in the bloodstream, and it was full of action and excitement." [30] Although Asimov urged the publisher to accept Farmer's manuscript, it was insisted that Asimov write the novel. So, Asimov eventually wrote the book in his own way (completely different in plot from what [Farmer] had written), which was eventually published by Doubleday in 1987 as Fantastic Voyage II and "dealt not with competing submarines in the bloodstream, but with one submarine, with [an] American hero cooperating (not entirely voluntarily) with four Soviet crew members." [30] The novel was not made into a movie, however.

James Cameron was also interested in directing a remake (since at least 1997), [31] but decided to devote his efforts to his Avatar project. He still remained open to the idea of producing a feature based on his own screenplay, and in 2007, 20th Century Fox announced that pre-production on the project was finally underway. Roland Emmerich agreed to direct, but rejected the script written by Cameron. [31] [32] Marianne and Cormac Wibberley were hired to write a new script, but the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike delayed filming, and Emmerich began working on 2012 instead. [32] [33]

In spring 2010, Paul Greengrass was considering directing the remake from a script written by Shane Salerno and produced by James Cameron , but later dropped out to be replaced by Shawn Levy . It is intended that the film be shot in native stereoscopic 3D. [34]

In January 2016, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct the reboot by reteaming with David S. Goyer , who is writing the film's script with Justin Rhodes with Cameron still on the film by his production company Lightstorm Entertainment . [35]

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↑ Kit, Borys (January 7, 2016). "Guillermo del Toro in Talks to Direct 'Fantastic Voyage' Remake (Exclusive)" . The Hollywood Reporter . http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/guillermo-del-toro-talks-direct-852592 .

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Fantastic Voyage

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Fantastic Voyage was a long level 90 quest, based started in the coastal town of Jofash Docks and playing out on Gateway Island and a mysterious place.

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Relend is looking for an adventure and has decided to track down Captain Goldclaw's treasure on Gateway Island. On a journey with the player, the two encounter various obstacles in their adventures that they must overcome, and ultimately discover a mysterious and dark place...

Stage 1 [ ]

» Speak to Relend .

Relend: Let's go, just you and me! On a grand voyage across the sea!
Relend: In search of a pirate's gold, old chap! But first we'll need a treasure map.
Relend: I think I know where we can nab a chart, but you're going to need a lion's heart!
Relend: Captain Goldenclaw was the best pirate to date, although eventually he met his grim fate...
Relend: He still lies with the map we need to get our ship in motion. To find him, follow the flowers with the color of the ocean.

When interacted with again:

Relend: ???

When attempting to board the ship:

Relend: That is my ship, the Little Wing. But I'm afraid it's not ready for boarding.

Stage 2 [ ]

» Defeat Captain Goldenclaw and give the map to Relend .

Captain Goldenclaw's skeleton is located at 1182, -4169. It can be found by following the trail of blue flowers near Relend.

Relend: Welcome back, new acquaintance of mine. Seems you managed to get that map just fine!
Relend: Gateway Island? Must be where Goldenclaw buried his treasure. If we can find where it's hidden, it shall bring us both great pleasure!
Relend: So how about it, shall we set sail? If you're scared to go, this is your last chance to bail!
Relend: Hop aboard my ship so we can cross the water, Little Wing is what I like to call her.

Stage 3 [ ]

» Set sail aboard Relend ’s ship.

Relend: The excitement of this journey is making me squeal! Come and meet me by the steering wheel!

Stage 4 [ ]

» Speak to Captain Relend aboard the Little Wing.

Relend: Welcome aboard, I suppose I can consider you my first mate. Although, it appears we now have a problem on our plate.
Relend: You see those spikes all around my boat? Well, we're about to ram into them like a goat!
Relend: I'd steer around them, but it appears the wheel is broken. I need you to craft a new one before we're both soaking!
Relend: There's a Crafting Table at the front near all the crates. Now hurry up, our valuable treasure awaits!

Stage 5 [ ]

» Bring a Wooden Board, a Center Piece, and a String to the Crafting Table.

Using the wooden board, center piece, and string, along with the tools at the workbench, you contruct a steering wheel. You should give it to Captain Relend.

Stage 6 [ ]

» Bring the Steering Wheel to Captain Relend .

Relend: Ah, thank you for helping me in my time of need. Let's maneuver through these spikes at a steady speed!
Relend: Although, at the last minute, there is something I have to confess. I have never captained a ship with any success.
Relend: I think before we get into any real danger, we should turn around. Could you man the wheel and get us back to solid ground?

Stage 7 [ ]

» Man the wheel of the Little Wing.

Relend: Nice steering, although your maneuvers are a bit brash. Hey, watch out! I think we're about to-

Stage 8 [ ]

» Find Relend inside of the wreck of the Little Wing.

Relend: As you can see, my ship has become a shipwreck! Now please help me, I am trapped in the lower deck!
Relend: Amazing work, seems you got below deck rather quickly! You're going to have to get through this wreckage to free me!
Relend: Wow, so you managed to work your way through after all! Maybe to free me, you can use that cannonball?

Stage 9 [ ]

» Save Relend inside of the wreck of the Little Wing.

Relend: Thank you for freeing me, now let's leave this mess! Although, I don't know how to do that, I have not even a guess.
Relend: When the ship crashed, it was buried beneath the sand! But the good news is that we're finally back on land!
Relend: We should probably get of this place, it feels rather small. Perhaps you can try to break through that weak spot in the wall?

Stage 10 [ ]

» Exit the shipwrecked Little Wing.

Relend: It looks like we're going to be stuck here for a while. Come and speak to me so we can find a way off of this isle!

Stage 11 [ ]

» Speak to Relend on the beach.

Relend: Gateway Island... we've finally arrived. I'm just thankful that we survived.
Relend: Well, all this adventuring has me hungry for stew. We'll need ingredients, whatever's on the island will have to do.
Relend: Meat is definitely something we need to reap, try and get [10 Raw Mutton] from those sheep.
Relend: And perhaps you could get [5 Edible Mushrooms] from the western cave, just make sure not to get the kind that will send me to my grave.
Relend: I feel like something is missing from this medley. Oh, how about you get [1 Coconut] from atop that tree?
Relend: And if you could fetch [7 Berries], that would just make me merry!
Relend: Check your quest book if you ever need a recap. And to make sure you don't get lost, take this map.

Stage 12 [ ]

Bring 10 Raw Mutton, 5 Edible Mushrooms, 1 Coconut, and 7 Berries to the Cooking Pot.
Using the ingredients you acquired, you make a peculiar-looking stew. It'll have to do, you should bring it to Relend.

Stage 13 [ ]

» Give the Odd Stew to Relend .

Relend: Well, this stew has a rather odd flavor. But any food we can get here I shall savor.
Relend: What remains of my ship won't protect us very well. We'll need to find shelter, as you can clearly tell.
Relend: To the east, I can just barely make out a tent. Go and take a look at it for a moment.

Stage 14 [ ]

» Check out the tent to the east.

This tent is far too damaged for use. Maybe Relend has other ideas for where to stay.

Stage 15 [ ]

» Report back to Relend .

Relend: So the tent was just too run-down? All of this bad news is making me frown.
Relend: Allow me to borrow your map for a second. We'll have to find somewhere else, I reckon.
Relend: See if you can move the large rock at the island's center. There's likely a cave behind it for you to enter.

Stage 16 [ ]

» Take a look at the boulder at the center of the island.

This boulder is too large to move! Maybe Relend has another solution...

Stage 17 [ ]

Relend: You mean you couldn't move the stone? All of these problems are making me groan.
Relend: I know we can come up with solution using our wits. Perhaps we can craft an explosive to blow that rock to bits!
Relend: Let's think of some materials we can get here. There isn't much on this island, I fear.
Relend: First we're going to need [5 Grainy Sand]. Where to get it? Try the beach at the back of the island.
Relend: Next up is [Sawdust], you'll need three. I think the best place to search would be the largest tree.
Relend: Finally, [1 Black Powder], found in a place that is very unique. You'll have to brave your way to the volcano's peak.
Relend: You'll need those items you craft the bomb, I just told you where to look. If you forget what you need to find, check your quest book.

Stage 18 [ ]

» Bring 5 Gritty Sand, 3 Saw Dust, and 1 Black Powder to the Crafting Table.

Using the sand, saw dust, and black powder, you craft a makeshift explosive. Take it to the boulder so you can destroy it.

Stage 19 [ ]

» Use the explosive on the boulder.

Now that you have the explosive, place it in front of the boulder.

Stage 20 [ ]

» Use the explosive on the boulder and enter the cave.

Stage 21 [ ]

» Advance deeper into the cave.

It looks like a portal, you should definitely take a look inside.

Stage 22 [ ]

» Enter the mysterious portal.

What is this place? Well, it looks like the portal's broken on this end so you'll have to find another way out.

Stage 23 [ ]

» Find an exit from the strange place.

Relend: Don't act so surprised, I was right behind you the whole time! I'll help you fight and maybe sing a rhyme!

Stage 24 [ ]

» Accompany Relend through the strange place.

Relend: Another portal? This is our only way out. We have to go inside, without a doubt.

Stage 25 [ ]

» Go through the portal in the strange place.

Relend: Now that we're back, we should talk. Then I'll head back to Jofash Dock.

Stage 26 [ ]

Relend: Seeing that you're still alive is splendid. Finally, this whole ordeal has ended.
Relend: It's such a shame that my ship is gone. Oh well, I'll head back to the dock and build another one.
Relend: I almost forgot, I saw a note by that portal of dread. Would you mind if I tell you what it read?
Relend: "Whoever enters this portal, beware the darkness inside." Well, I didn't see anyone else in that place, I suppose they died.
Relend: By the way, while we were on the island, I found a chest full of gold. I'll give you a share, since there's too much for me to hold.
The strange dimension is thought to be the Realm of Dern .
The run-down tent contains the beginning of the first Sealed Letter , so it is believed to belong to Bob the Warrior.
This was the only quest above Level 75 that didn't take place in the Gavel Province before the Corkus update.
This quest still uses the old boats in the steering section, which are otherwise unobtainable.
Relend speaks entirely in rhyme.
When you need to guide Relend to the end of the tunnel, you can just go running ahead without needing to have Relend right behind you.
The name of the quest is a reference to the 1966 Sci-fi/Fantasy film of the same name.
The area you and Relend appear in during the last stage of this quest are the Abandoned Mines in Wynn , which could be foreshadowing the darkness that you will come to .
You can get to Jofash Docks from buying a ticket of the V.S.S. Seaskipper in Llevigar
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