‘Black Hole’ Sucked Back to Big Screen

Disney is set to return to THE BLACK HOLE by remaking the 1979 film with the directing and producing team currently working on TRON: LEGACY, Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, respectively. The script is being written by Travis Beacham.

The original BLACK HOLE was Disney’s first PG film and it’s most expensive at $26 million. In the film the crew USS Palomino finds the USS Cygnus where a scientist and his robot Maximilian plan to enter the black hole by which they are stationed. The film featured Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster and the voice of Slim Pickens. The plot of the remake is being kept quiet, but word is robot Maximilian will return.

THE BLACK HOLE was on the dark side of Disney’s films and big on the special effects. It was a movie of my childhood and has left quite a mark with it’s tone and style. It was the two smaller robots Bob (Slim Pickens) and V.I.N.CENT who gave it it’s fun touch, while Maximilian was the scary one.

I went to a midnight screening of THE BLACK HOLE a few years back and won a BLACK HOLE lunch box and a year after that got it signed by actor Maximilian Schell which is one of my favorite movie scores. I will be keeping a careful eye on the remake and only hope it can capture what Disney did right and add on some more.