During a panel discussion in Hall H at Comic-Con on Friday, directors Antoine Fuqua and Roland Emmerich discussed everything from a "dominant" James Cameron to Fuqua's upcoming Michael Jackson biopic Michael and much more.
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Emmerich didn't mince his words when asked if he had been in competition with Cameron for years to get a remake of the 1966 science fiction classic Fantastic Voyage off the ground.
"It was kind of like James Cameron is very controlling, and so I gave up at a certain point," the director said. "Because it's like, is it your movie or my movie? And that's what happened."
Emmerich said his vision for Fantastic Voyage was in the "very early stages" when he finally decided to drop out. "Because I said, 'Gee, why is he so controlling?'" the filmmaker said. "Look, I'm going to have to say I'm doing my thing, and if I can't do my thing, I'm not interested at all. It's that simple. So if someone else wants to say something to me and they're more powerful than me, I'm out."
