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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 are shrunk to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain. 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. Bantam Books obtained the rights for a paperback novelization based on the screenplay and approached Isaac Asimov to write it. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantastic Voyage (TV Series)
''Fantastic Voyage'' is an American Animation, animated science fiction TV series based on the famous Fantastic Voyage, 1966 film directed by Richard Fleischer. The series consists of 17 half-hour episodes, airing Saturday mornings on American Broadcasting Company, 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 Television, 20th Century Fox. A ''Fantastic Voyage'' comic book, based on the series, was published by Gold Key Comics, Gold Key and lasted two issues. The show was later broadcast in reruns on the Syfy, Sci Fi Channel's ''Cartoon Quest'', from 1992 to 1996. There are currently no plans to release the series on DVD and/or Blu-ray, 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. Premise ''Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |