Well this is either one of two projects... BROTHER TERMITE or the PLANET OF THE APES film. Personally I believe Cameron is tapping Hyams for the PLANET OF THE APES movie... I don't know why, it's just my gut instinct. I generally like Hyams, and hope him and Cameron the best of luck...
I'm a student at the USC/Universal Summer Production Workshop. Today we had a seminar with Peter Hyams in one of the rehearsal halls at Universal Studios. He had a few cool tidbits to share with us. First off, he told us that Cameron had him working on a movie story and script for over a year. The movie turned out to be a asteriod movie. Their idea had been kept secret. When the script was almost done Dreamworks and Buena Vista announced that they were making asteroid movies. So the Hyams and Cameron project was cancelled or shelfed, whatever you want to call it. So now Cameron feels that he owed Hyams something. Hyams told us that thanks to the Titanic film Cameron could get almost virtually any project done he wants, but he wants to have a producer role for a while. So he told Hyams that he wants him to be the director for his next project. He said that the project was going to be big and was deffinetly news worthy. He said that the project was going to be kept very secret so he couldn't talk about it at all.
Though, probably a big tidbit, he told us that things were going to start going down in the next few weeks.
