Back in November, it was announced that the guys who’s bringing us TRON LEGACY (check out the teaser), director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey have been developing the remake of THE BLACK HOLE about a research vessel that finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole. The 1979 version was made with a budget of $26 Million, back then that was considered hella costly, and it was Disney’s first PG rated movie. Kosinski talked to MTV about what we can anticipate with his take…
“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,’”
“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.”
Kosinski emphasized that this will not be a sequel, it’s a reimagining with deeper understanding of the science behind black holes.
