It’s protected to say that Roland Emmerich and James Cameron aren’t more likely to collaborate anytime quickly.

Throughout a dialog between filmmakers Emmerich and Antoine Fuqua at San Diego Comedian-Con, director Louis Leterrier appeared by way of video to ask Emmerich in regards to the long-gestating remake of the 1966 movie Improbable Voyage that Cameron has been attempting to get off the bottom. Leterrier talked about that he would nonetheless like to get to direct the movie and requested Emmerich about his expertise years in the past with the challenge.

“James Cameron could be very overbearing, and so I, at one level, simply gave up,” Emmerich replied throughout Collider’s Administrators on Directing occasion, resulting in laughter from the viewers. “As a result of it’s like, ‘Is it your film or my film?’”

The Independence Day filmmaker continued, “We had been in very starting phases. As a result of I mentioned, ‘Gosh, why is he so overbearing?’ I’ve to say, I do my stuff, and once I can’t do my stuff, I’m completely not . So simple as that. So when anyone else desires to say one thing to me and is extra highly effective than me, I drop out.”

Emmerich, whose different credit embody The Day After Tomorrow and the brand new Peacock sequence These About to Die, mentioned in a 2007 interview that he dropped out of helming Improbable Voyage as a result of he was sad with the script. Quite a lot of administrators have since eyed the challenge, together with Paul Greengrass, Shawn Levy and Guillermo del Toro.

The 1966 sci-fi film Improbable Voyage starred Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch. It targeted on a submarine crew getting shrunk all the way down to enter the physique of a scientist who suffered a mind damage.

Throughout an April occasion at Cinematheque Francaise in Paris, Cameron spoke in regards to the standing of his Improbable Voyage remake. He famous that, whereas the movie had been in improvement for fairly a while, he nonetheless hoped to maneuver ahead with it quickly.