According to reports, director James "Terminator" Cameron is interested in an updated screenplay of "Forbidden Planet", from writer J. Michael Straczynski, for Warner Bros, with Joel "Lethal Weapon" Silver producing via his Silver Pictures.
The original "Forbidden Planet feature was released in 1956, directed by Fred M. Wilcox, sarring actors Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. The characters and setting were inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and the plots are very similar.
The film features a number of Oscar-nominated special effects, groundbreaking use of an all-electronic music score, and the first screen appearance of both 'Robby the Robot' and the 'C-57D' flying saucer starship. 
The original screenplay was set in the early 2200s, when the 'United Planets Cruiser C-57D' is sent to the planet 'Altair IV' , sixteen light years from Earth, to find out what happened to a colony expedition sent out some twenty years earlier.
At the end of the year-long voyage, 'Commander John J. Adams' (Leslie Nielsen) contacts 'Dr. Edward Morbius' (Walter Pidgeon), the expedition's philologist, who warns him to stay away, but refuses to give a reason.
Upon landing, the crew is met by 'Robby the Robot', who takes Adams, his first officer, 'Lieutenant Jerry Farman' (Jack Kelly), and 'Lieutenant "Doc" Ostrow' (Warren Stevens) to Morbius' home. Morbius explains that a year after the expedition's arrival, some unknown force wiped out nearly everyone in his party and vaporized their starship as the last survivors tried to escape. Only he, his wife (who later died of other causes), and his daughter 'Altaira' (Ann Francis) survived.
Morbius fears that the same fate may await the crew of the C-57D.
Cameron is currently putting the finishing CG touches on his newest sci fi feature "Avatar".
