'The Black Hole' set for a comeback thanks to 'Tron' visionaries
Hold on to your sci-fi hats...apparently Disney's 1979 film, "The Black Hole" is being remade and by the same team that's putting together the sequel to "Tron."
According to Heat Vision, Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the director and producer of "Tron Legacy," are helming the project about an Earth-bound ship encountering a supposedly lost ship hovering near a black hole.
No details released as of yet, except that more science will be included this time around. One can only hope Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, Maximillian, are as ominous as they were in the original. Anyone can have a helper robot, but one with spinning blades as hands? That's priceless.
Follow Zap2it on Twitter for the latest TV, movie and celebrity news.According to Heat Vision, Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the director and producer of "Tron Legacy," are helming the project about an Earth-bound ship encountering a supposedly lost ship hovering near a black hole.
No details released as of yet, except that more science will be included this time around. One can only hope Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, Maximillian, are as ominous as they were in the original. Anyone can have a helper robot, but one with spinning blades as hands? That's priceless.
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Very cool news - one of my favorite films of all time, but also a film that could be improved with some better character depth and more science...
One of my favorites, too. Who'd'a thought that Disney, of all companies, would make a film where one of its cast gets eviscerated?!
The remake may be "more scientifically accurate", but how can you possibly beat the existential ending of the original? I'm hoping that the remake will have a similarly strange ending, because seeing the main characters get crushed out of existence just wouldn't be the same. :-)
@MJPollard, how do you get "existential" from Disney's original "The Black Hole?"
That movie was rife with religious imagery. In the end a Reinhardt/Maximillian hybrid end up in "Hell" and, after a stomach-churning thrill ride, the good guys make it safely through to the "other side" of the black hole.
On the other hand, "Tron" practically beat us over the head with the Sunday School lessons.
Don't get me wrong, they're still on my all-time fave list, and it's nice to drag them out and watch them occasionally. But let's call spades spades.
I just hope we don't get empty, special effects-driven dogs as sequels. We'll see.
Quit spoiling the movie, you idiots!