Following the release of Tron: Legacy one year from now, the producer and director team of Sean Bailey and Joseph Kosinski will remain at Disney to steer it toward a remake of the Studio’s 1979 space drama The Black Hole. At the time the company’s first PG-rated movie and its most expensive film to date, featuring the first glimpses of computer animation on the big screen in its opening title sequence and a record breaking number of visual effects shots, The Black Hole‘s ending proved to be too ambiguous for most audiences but, like Tron, has become a cult favorite. The remake, which will lean more heavily on science fact, is the first major production greenlit by new Studio chief Rich Ross, who had shelved Bailey’s 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea previously. There’s no word on Vincent and Old Bob, but the robotic menace Maximilian is said to be back, in a film that Disney hopes could launch a new franchise.
Disney heads back into The Black Hole