The Hollywood Reporter announced today that the team behind Tron: Legacy are being tapped to remake The Black Hole. No, not the Black Hole from 2006 that stars Judd Nelson and Kristy Swanson as nuclear physicists trying to stop a monster that emerges from a black hole in St. Louis (seriously), The Black Hole, the 1979 Disney flick.
The original had an impressive cast (Maximilian Schell! Robert Forster! Anthony Perkins! Ernest Borgnine! Robot voices by Roddy McDowall and Slim Pikins!) and was a pretty enormously expensive film at the time, costing a solid 26 million. It made back its money and managed to make the studio a major player in the world of computer effects. After its success Disney went on to expand upon the impressive 3D effects (it had the longest CGI shot in film history upon release), leading to Tron a few years later.
Besides the involvement of Tron: Legacy‘s director and producer (Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey) there is no word on what the story for the remake is about, but apparently there’s going to be an attempt to make the black hole more scientifically sound this time. Still, let’s hope they fight off an army of robots at some point.
It certainly shows a lot of faith in Kosinki (as well as the strength of the Tron brand), as Tron: Legacy is the man’s directorial debut. The film will hit next December, and it’s likely that The Black Hole will be next up.
Wonder if they could possibly improve on those vector graphics on our boards!
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Hope they keep the John Barry score.
Best thing about the movie.
I second for keeping the John Barry score, and Disney, get some balls, and keep the Overture at the beginning. The Black Hole is one of my favorite films, warts and all.
There is no way Disney has the balls to keep that trippy downer ending. But if they did!
I've been wanting them to remake this for years.The black hole remake is one remake that I can get behind!
The original certainly had a killer cast, both literally and figuratively…..
Tron, Black Hole and Star Trek: The Motion Picture wins a three way tie as most boring movies of my childhood. All they can do is a make a good movie out of this one. Nostalgia can be kind to movies we would have hated if released today.
Awesome, the movie that demonstrates that Book Smarts are no match for Rotating Blade Appendages.
Next up… 'Watcher in the Woods' remake for the trifecta!
Re: disneynasty – indeed ! Perkins demise is still one of the most shocking moments in a kiddie flick I can think of. Also the babydragons snacking on princess elspeth in Dragonslayer…
Ps I want my Herculoids live feature!
"But what caused… that cause?"
@#9 – Dude, finally ordered the Dragonslayer DVD. Will be watching that leg-munching scene for the first time since the cinema release by Christmas. Re: "Watcher in the Woods" Yes, but only if they can make it as shit scary as it was to me when I was a kid. Watched it again about ten years ago and sadly just found it more dreamlike than scary in it's most effective moments (early 80s Soft-focus-o-vision!). Bette Davis was a scary old bitch though…CGI Bette for the remake?
You know who showed me his black hole, my uncle Lamar.
Therapy is expensive.
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