After some dillying and then some serious dallying, Stephen Sommers has returned to Paramount’s When Worlds Collide remake.
The Van Helsing director was originally attached to the film earlier in the year, before a dithering, recently changed regime at Paramount took too long to decide to flash the greenlight and Sommers departed for Fox, where he signed to direct curse-clash comedy A Night At The Museum.
Cue creative differences in September and Sommers is off the Museum and back on Worlds. And who do we have to thank for this prodigal return? Steven Spielberg, apparently, who joined Worlds as a producer shortly after Sommers left it.
The plot of the 1951 original is classic sci fi – the Earth comes under threat from two marauding planets that threaten to crash straight into it. In an attempt to get mankind out of harm’s way, the globe’s top brains start trying to build a huge rocket. Cue backbiting, corruption and plenty of courage…