Joseph Kosinski is pretty busy finishing up what I’m certain will be the awesome “Tron: Legacy” starring Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde. Joseph’s next project will be the “reimaging” of Disney’s “Black Hole” which was Disney’s kind of answer to “Star Wars”. The original was pretty nifty, even though Disney tried a little too hard to make some of the robots cute.
In “Black Hole” a deep space vessel happens aboard the Cygnus, orbiting around a big nasty black hole. The ship was crewed by an evil scientist type and featured a bad ass red droid killer named Maximilian, who eventually chops up the scientist in an amusingly gruesome way, if my memory still serves me.
Joe has some new ideas for the new “Black Hole”, which he has kindly elaborated on. First, of course, we’ll need a script.
“We’ve got a really strong idea and concept for the film,” Kosinski said early in January. “The title alone has tremendous amount of potential. We’ve got a really talented writer on it named Travis Beecham. We’re just getting started on the script in the next few months.”
“It won’t be a sequel like ‘Tron,’” he explained. “This one will be a reimagining. For me, it would be taking ideas and iconic elements that struck me as timeless and cool and preserving them while weaving a new story around them that’s a little more ’2001.’”
How about the whole crazed crimson death bot thing? We hanging onto that Joe?
“I saw ‘Black Hole’ as a little kid,” said Kosinski. “What sticks out most is the robot Maximilian. The blades and the vicious killing of Anthony Perkins. That freaked me out and that’s definitely going to be an element that will be preserved. The design of the Cygnus ship is one of the most iconic spaceships ever put to film. From a conceptual point of view, we know so much more about black holes now, the crazy things that go on as you approach them due to the intense gravitational pull and the effects on time and space. All that could provide us with some really cool film if we embrace it in a hard science way.”
I’ll refresh your memory of 1979′s “Black Hole” in a few pictures. Thanks MTV Movies
