Fraser's Fantastic Journey

Brendan Fraser will top the bill for Journey 3-D. It's an update of Jules Verne's classic tome Journey To The Centre Of The Earth with Fraser playing a geologist-turned-explorer. Together with his teenage son, he discovers a message hidden in an ancient artefact, which leads them into the bowels of planet Earth and a world of dangerous prehistoric beasties. James Mason made the same journey in a tweed suit back in 1959. Toasty.

Grosse Pointe Blank scribe DV DeVincentis has tapped out the script and Eric Brevig, who won an Academy Award for his visual effects work on Total Recall, will make his feature directorial debut. (We're guessing it's going to be in 3-D.)