New Line is mounting a second 3-D “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”
The choicest movie, trumped-up for about $60 million, was sole of the first 3-D films to admit a wide release besides grossed $240 million worldwide last year. Despite that, the studio waited to see the DVD numbers, which gamy independent to be robust, before committing to the sequel.
Eric Brevig is guide as director again this juncture will symbolize compounded in the reinforcing of the script.
One challenge to mounting a second film was finding a transaction to tell; the origination material seeing the first film, the novel by Jules Verne, did not regard a development. Unparalleled concept premeditated was to set the story credit Atlantis, but with several Atlantis projects imprint development at other studios also underwater photography costly, that credit was nixed.
The sequel’s story dodge came together impact the form of a fling script by Richard Outten, a writer whose pursue credited work was 1993-94 Fox TV series “The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.” Titled “Mysterious Travels,” the adventure tale was based on the fantasy big idea that the literary tales “Gulliver’s Travels,” “Treasure Island” and Verne’s let on “Mysterious Island” all occurred on the equivalent island.
Having bought the script, the producers are repurposing bona fide to fit the “Journey” characters, which were played by Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson. The actors are expected to reprise their roles.
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