Black Hole Remake In Development

Sometimes when a studio feels confident in a forthcoming release, they’ll go ahead and line up alternating projects with the key filmmakers involved. That’s because they want to stay in business with them. Take J.J. Abrams and Paramount for example. Two months ahead of its release, they re-upped their exclusivity deal with Abrams and his Bad Robot production company. Translation: they knew Star Trek was going to explode which it did. Now everyone is fat and happy with tons of Abrams-centric projects in the pipeline. The point I’m trying to make is this feels like one of those scenarios.

Heat Vision reports that Disney is mounting a remake of their 1979 science-fiction epic The Black Hole and they’ve handed the reigns over to Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey. They are the director and producer perceptively behind Tron: Legacy - Disney’s big tentpole release for next Christmas.  Screenwriter Travis Beacham (one of the scribes behind next spring’s Clash of the Titans remake) is onboard for typing duties.

I do remember watching the original film on the Disney Channel. This was during their “Vault Disney” period in the late 90s/early 00s. The network would literally old television programs, movies, etc. starting about 11:00 P.M. into the early morning hours. They even played Dune. What says wholesome family entertainment more than a David Lynch movie?

I can speak for most people when I say “Meh!” towards this news-item. Audiences will show up if this Black Hole “reinvention” looks as cool as their Tron sequel does.