Brendan Fraser To Star In Journey 3-D

Brendan Fraser will star in Journey 3-D, an update of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, from Walden Media and New Line, Variety reported. Fraser will portray a geologist who, with his teenage son, discovers a message hidden in an ancient artifact, leading them into a previously unseen world.

Visual-effects supervisor Eric Brevig, who won a Special Achievement Academy Award for Total Recall, will make his feature directorial debut. D.V. DeVincentis (High Fidelity) has written the script. Fraser is also set to executive-produce the film, along with visual-effects veteran Charlotte Huggins.

Journey 3-D will be shot in live action, with the otherworldly landscapes and creatures supplied by high-definition, photo-real 3-D technology. The project is the third collaboration between Walden and New Line, the trade paper reported.