Disney To "Reinvent" The Black Hole

Disney To "Reinvent" The Black Hole

Current "reboot" trends continue as Disney plans on a do-over of their own 1979 Sci Fi movie.

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By MarkCassidy - Dec 03, 2009 05:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: firstshowing.net



Joseph Kosinski, the director of Tron: Legacy is teaming up with writer Travis Beacham to "reinvent" the 1979 sci-fi film, which followed a group of space explorers aboard the USS Palomino who come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering outside a black hole. Inside the Cygnus, the explorers meet a scientist, commanding an army of faceless robots, who explains his crew deserted him as he planned to go through the black hole. The explorers soon discover that the robots are the remnants of the former crew and that the scientist has no intention of letting them leave. The details of the update are being kept secret, though the take does involve grounding the story in the science of a black hole, much more so than in the original. And there will be menacing robots once again.

The original was no great shakes..although I do remember enjoying it as a kid, and haven't got full recollection of it. I do remember thinking it was quite violent for a kids movie, and Ernest Borgnine hamming it up..not much else. Might be worth watching again. Anyone else remember this?

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Kalabog
Kalabog - 12/3/2009, 5:36 PM
Cool. I remembered this way back in my childhood days. Reading a commentary on Reader's Digest but never got a chance to watch it though. I was big fan of Star Wars back then.

Well whadda you know first post!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 12/3/2009, 5:51 PM
Huh, this feels weirdly familiar as if I might have seen it when I was kid but I honestly cant say for sure, lol!

Regardless, the concept sounds pretty damn cool - I wouldnt mind seeing this actually! Great find ROR! :)
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 5:57 PM
I loved this when I was a kid, and it was scary for a kids movie. I think an adaption would be cool...something along the lines of event horizon but with killer robots.
answer
answer - 12/3/2009, 6:01 PM
I remember actually having this on audio cassette! Yes you heard correctly AUDIO!!

thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 6:09 PM
ha, I think I did too theawnser. I think I had it for my hand me down teddy roxpin.
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 6:15 PM
for those of you that want to brush up on it

MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 12/3/2009, 6:17 PM
haha,. cool, thanks Guardian, im gonna watch the whole damn thing now!
answer
answer - 12/3/2009, 6:24 PM
Nice one Guardian!! I also had The Gremlins and the A Team movie!!
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 6:26 PM
I'm watching it now lol
jazzman
jazzman - 12/3/2009, 6:36 PM
Disney also want to remake Flight of the Navigator

JYCowboy
JYCowboy - 12/3/2009, 6:41 PM
This is one of the products of the Sci-fi Boom of the late 70's brought about by Star Wars.

Tron, The Cat from Outer Space and the Black Hole were Disneys attempt into the market. Anyone remeber these:

"Battle Beyond the Stars"
"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"
"Battlestar Galactica"
"Flash Gordon"
"Alien"
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
"Galaxina"
"Star Trek: the (slow)Motion Picture"
"Saturn Three"
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
"Laser Blast"
"Superman"
"Moonraker"
"Mad Max"
"Starcrash"
"Time After Time"
"Altered States"
"Hanger 18"
"The Final Countdown"
"Scanners"
"Escape From New York"
"Heavy Metal"
"Heart Beeps"
"Looker"
"Outland"
"Timebandits"
"Android"
"Bladerunner"

This is by no means a complete List but just a few off the top of my memory. There was a lot of shlock, but a few gems. You never knew when a B-grade might hit you just right and stick with ya'.
Betty
Betty - 12/3/2009, 6:47 PM
Maximilian! That robot was kickass. Evil. But I love menacing robots. It's a pretty good movie. I've watched it over and over, always a good time.

I don't know what to think about Flight of the Navigator remake, jazzy.
Betty
Betty - 12/3/2009, 6:49 PM
JYCowboy-- Where did you find my list of favorite movies?
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 12/3/2009, 6:55 PM
lol u never saw that , Ror?.. It's pretty cheesy at times.

As a young child I had a coloring book about it that had "pictures" of a black hole in it! Which is not actually possible lmao

The science is perhaps the most laughable of any movie ever

Also I don't get the ending. I asked my mom about it as a little kid and she told me that in the end Maximillian went to hell and that I would too if I kept watching stuff like that. LOL!
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 6:56 PM
lol me too betty, that's a great list JY
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 12/3/2009, 6:57 PM
ha, yeah Iv seen most of them myself..and Blade Runner is in my top 5 of all time.

Black Hole is holding my attention..but it has not aged well!
Betty
Betty - 12/3/2009, 6:59 PM
haha!
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 6:59 PM
I don't know ror, it seems alright to me age wise. Reminds me sort of 2001
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 12/3/2009, 7:00 PM
lol I love Altered States. And Bladerunner. and Close Encounters.. yeah it's a hell of a list
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 12/3/2009, 7:03 PM
?!?! @Guardian: 2001 is kind of profound. Black hole is.... not...
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 7:05 PM
well yeah, it's no match intellectually, but effects wise. It doesn't effect the story for me in either movie.
Phinehas
Phinehas - 12/3/2009, 7:33 PM
"grounding the story in the science of a black hole"

Like the Star Trek movie did??? LOL

If they can reinvent an old dud like the Black Hole, I say go ahead! It has potential to be better than the original as stated in the article. But I'd rather see something like Buck Rodgers flung into the future (though not using exact dates in the movie which ages it for later watching generations) fighting aliens in space and zombies from the nuclear holocaust on earth. That's good cinema!
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 7:53 PM
Buck Rodgers is cool, but I've always been a Flash Gordon fan. I was raised in the old serials, heck I even liked the 80's movie due to my huge feelings of nostalgia I have for good ol' Flash.
Phinehas
Phinehas - 12/3/2009, 7:59 PM
I was thinking of the 80's Buck Rogers. With Tweekie voiced by Mel Blanc!

Buck Rogers drops the "F" Bomb!


gaikinger
gaikinger - 12/3/2009, 8:12 PM
my fovorite character was S.T.A.R.R. the black sentry robot.
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 8:25 PM
yeah that tv show was pretty funny, I used to love watching reruns of it and battle star galactica after school on the scifi channel.
Coincidentally access posted a teaser for a new online buck rogers show over in fan fic.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 12/3/2009, 8:58 PM
Ok, its pretty shit! haha, some good bits and the early scenes were ok..but what an awful load of bollocks the ending was. A remake can only improve on that.
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 9:08 PM
I don't know I didn't mind the ending ror, it was a little over bearing with the imagery of heaven and hell but it wasn't to different than other depictions of going through a worm whole.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 12/3/2009, 9:14 PM
It wasn't that so much..I kinda liked the image of Max and the Doctor as Satan..but it was all the other shite with the silly laser fights and crap music, that Harry dude just suddenly deciding he was going to betray all of his friends for no reason. Just lost me at that point. I do remember why I thought it was a bit violent for a kids movie..that bit were Max drills into Anthony Perkins chest is pretty intense!
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 9:20 PM
yeah, that was intense. Also the reveal of what the people look like under the robot face plates freaked me out a bit as a kid.

The laser fights were a bit silly but, I think that's the buck rogers influence showing up. I admit I dozed a bit during that bit. Also I think that harry's death was just a plot point really, their ship needed to be destroyed or they'd have no reason for going through the black hole.

Still despite those failings I found it still very watchable as a whole. It had a decent story, sort of like 20,000 leagues in space.
NERO
NERO - 12/3/2009, 10:03 PM
I loved this thing as a very small kid. Ah, floating robots... gotta see the strings.
gaikinger
gaikinger - 12/3/2009, 10:22 PM
it was the first ever pg rated disney film. it had a pretty kick ass score too. that big ship( cygnus i think) was a pretty cool original ship. always pulled a little on my sissy heart strings when the captain saves the girl just before she gets labotomized.
gaikinger
gaikinger - 12/3/2009, 10:27 PM
outland was a good one
Phinehas
Phinehas - 12/3/2009, 10:31 PM
twG- has a 1/10 clip of Black Hole posted. I started watching the intro and am facinated at the elementary computer effects in this 1979 movie. Jump ahead only three years to Tron and they created an entire world. What a very captivating thought about how much could be done with a computer in that era alone. Jump ahead 9 years with morphing and you got T2! Wow!
Nightwing09
Nightwing09 - 12/3/2009, 10:46 PM
Thank God They r Remaking This movie
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 12/3/2009, 10:54 PM
yah, it's pretty amazing to think about that transition phin. there's a part near the end where the entire ship is computer animated well,it's pretty impressive for it's time, and it's all because ILM told disney they were to busy to do the effects.
georgia49th
georgia49th - 12/4/2009, 12:23 AM
The Black hole was a good movie and I do remember laser blast that was a cool movie and Altered States was a drug trip gone bad the best scene is were he trips out on peyote and screws a lizard....
Kalabog
Kalabog - 12/4/2009, 2:18 AM
Ha-ha-ha. Back then futuristic-alien- space themes was such a big thing in movies and TV that I remembered even Casper went into the band wagon!
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