Those who love the classics, shield your eyes. Anyone with a nasty itch about Hollywood pinching all their ide🎀as from books, games and ot༺her previously trodden territories, avert your gaze now…

New Line are developing an update of Jules Verne's classic tale Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, starri💯ng Mummy Returns beefcake Brendan Fraser… using 3-D technology.

Journey 3-D will focus on Fraser as a geologist who, after discovering a mysteri🅷ous message hidden within an artifact, drags his son on an epic adventure into a treacherous and mesmerising undiscovered world.

The movie will be shot i🐟n live action by debut helmer Eric Brevig, with the landscapes and various creatures created via high-definition, photo-real🥂 3-D technology. Brevig's CV boasts an Oscar for his visual effects wizardry on Arnie's Mars mind-twister, Total Recall.

Fraser, also on board to produce, will be reading༺ from a script by High Fidelity scribbler D.V. DeVincentis.