Cinema Blend have got the scoop from The Hollywood Reporter than the Jules Verne classic sci-fi novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth is set to receive yet another big screen adaptation, this time specifically made for Real-3D!

I have no idea what on Earth Real-3D is, so i’m going to let Cinema Blend give us more on the project…

Apparently they’re an IMAX 3-D competitor. It’s a little bit newer technology, one which can project both 2D and 3D using a single digital projector and a special liquid-crystal screen placed in front of the projector to polarize the pictures. The effect is supposed to be fairly similar to the one you get from IMAX 3-D, only a little bit better.

Journey 3-D will use the special cameras James Cameron developed to shoot his 3-D documentaries Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep. If you saw either of those in a 3-D theater, then you know what a different experience it is than the three or four minutes of 3-D you get in movies like, say, Superman Returns. It’s really impressive. Imagine how much more impressive it will be on a real feature film, and not just an underwater documentary.

The movie will apparently be titled Journey 3-D and will star Brendan Fraser in the lead role along with child star Josh Hutcherson.

I love the 1959 adaptation of the Jules Verne story with Pat Boon and the awesome James Mason, and the idea of it being re-made with 3D technology does get me slightly giddy.

I like the choice of Fraser too, he worked really well in The Mummy and an adventure movie role along the same lines is certainly welcomed by me.

Like I say I’m a little dumb when it comes to 3D so I don’t know if this will be released in worldwide theatres of just conventional one’s next summer. Cinema Blend say that this movie will give us a nice taste of what is to come with James Cameron’s Avatar scheduled for 2009 which will be worth the ticket price alone!

source – cinema blend, the hollywood reporter