Disney Plans to Remake 'FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR'
Disney is going to take another one of their old movie properties and turn it into a new movie. the last couple of films we have seen them do this too is 'Race to Witch Mountain' and the upcoming '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'. Now they have set their sights on revamping the classic 80's film 'Flight of the Navigator', which was one of my personal favorite sci-fi films as a kid. But here they go again. The original movie tells the story of a 12 year old boy who gets abducted by an alien space craft. He ends up traveling eight years into the future from 1978 to 1986. The only problem is he can't remember what happened. the evil NASA enters the picture and try to exploit the poor kid.
As much as I loved this movie and wouldn't mind seeing it again now that it has entered my line of sight after all these years and would much rather watch the version I grew up with instead of this blasted remake. The guy who executive produced the first movie John Hyde has come back on board to do the remake. That doesn't help the fact that I would much rather have seen a new and original sci-fi film.
Brad Copeland has jumped on the project to write the script. This guy has wrote TV shows such a 'Grounded for Life', 'My Name is Earl', and 'Arrested Development'. Yeah, the guy has been involved with some nice TV show sitcoms. The one film he has written was a 'Wild Hogs'. So you be the judge of how this movie will turn out.
If it ends up being better than the original, which I don't think will be hard to do then fine that's great, but what is wrong with a little originality? Personally I don't think it will be any better than 'Race to Witch Mountain'.
What will the next remake be? 'Explorers'?
Source: THR