You have to take some things with a pinch of salt, especially when an actor says they are wanted for a particular project, and do so in the open press. It does have that faint whiff of self promotion. They know about the project, they want to be on it, so they talk about how they worked with the key person before and how much they all want to work together, etc etc.
Well Jessica Alba is out saying just that about James Cameron. They worked together in the Dark Angel days, a much underated TV series, and could have easily gone on to the movie screen, but it didn’t. In Movehole from IGN FilmForce:
“Jim Cameron has been kind of talking about maybe doing a comic book that involves scuba diving, it’s sort of like this girl underwater, and I have been talking about doing something like that”, says the spunky actress, next seen in “The Fantastic Four”.
So will “Fathom” happen? “It was just something that he sort of liked. We talk about a lot of things. I just thought that, I didn’t scuba dive for seven years and I should brush up on it…”, says Alba, adding that she hasn’t been asked to be part of “Battle Angel Alita” yet.
“Fathom”, based on a Top Cow comic, was first announced in 2002. It had been previously set up as an animated film.
Cameron apparently got interested in the project after he read, rather oddly, a scene on a ship: In the comic’s first issue, a young woman with no memory is found on a yacht. This “underlying theme of an ordinary person facing extraordinary circumstances”, is what drew Jimbo to it.
Apparently the screenplay was being written sometime ago, but there’s been no news since. Well considering Cameron’s love for water movies I think that there’s a good chance he would go towards projects that are based underwater. However, that connection is thread like so perhaps this is just clever sales technique on Alba’s part.
I think she’s a fine actress, excellent in Dark Angel which was a great series, and has a great career ahead of her, Sin City just being around the corner too. What is the opinion on Alba’s acting talents?
