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?
About The Author:
Mark Cassidy is a writer, photographer, amateur filmmaker, and Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic from Dublin, Ireland.