With one remake, The Running Man, already lined up and due in November, reports say that Edgar Wright could be looking at another. According to DanielRPK, Wright is considering coming aboard a remake of The Black Hole.
The 1979 movie was, at the time, the most expensive movie Disney had ever made. It was also something of a departure for Disney. The movie sticks out as some kind of oddity. Tonally all over the place, with wise-cracking, Deep South robots giving way to a major cast member being eviscerated by spinning blades.
The production design is superb, and John Barry’s exceptional score also elevates, even as an uneasy mix of sci-fi, horror, and Disney fails to really gel.
The Black Hole follows the crew of the space exploration vessel USS Palomino, who come into contact with a massive lost ship, the USS Cygnus, which is hovering just outside the gravitational pull of a black hole. The ship disappeared years before, and onboard they find the unhinged Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell), an army of faceless drones, and a murderous robot.
Robert Forster, Anthony Perkins, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Joseph Bottoms co-star, with Roddy McDowall and Slim Pickens voicing some robots.
Wright has always maintained he is a big fan of the original, and the reports say he will re-team with Joe Cornish to co-write the script as he did with The Adventures of Tintin and an earlier iteration of Ant-Man.
Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski was originally attached to the remake, but that project stalled.
