It seems like eventually every movie will be rebooted. Once an original films audience reaches a certain state of advanced decrepitude, the time comes to polish up the original with nice shiny effects and drop it on a new generation of moviegoers who are blissfully unaware of how much the original may have sucked. Because of the recent success of Race to Witch Mountain, Disney is digging through the dark depths of their catalogue for the next film to get the new car finish.

“Flight of the Navigator” starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Howard Hesseman and even Paul Reubens. Navigator told the pretty interesting Sci-Fi story of a kid that disappears one day only to reappear 8 years later not having aged a single day. A spaceship is found tangled in some power lines near him. What a coincidence! Arrested Developments writer Brad Copeland will pen the script and David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman (Bruce Willis’s Surrogates) will produce.

Flight of the Navigator bombed in theatres but did very well on video. Thanks Empire News for the scoop.