May 27 2009
Please Just Stop Already: Disney Planning A “Flight of the Navigator” Remake
As if enough movies from our childhoods haven’t been remade already, Disney is planning to remake “Flight of the Navigator.” From The Hollywood Reporter:
Brad Copeland is writing the remake, which is being produced by Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman.
The 1986 original told the story of a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spacecraft in 1978 and reappears eight years later, still the same age and with no memory of what happened. NASA scientists discover a connection between the boy and a downed spacecraft and try to exploit the boy, who ultimately escapes with the ship and attempts to reunite with his family.
I usually don’t get too worked up with all this remake nonsense, but “Flight of the Navigator” is one of the sacred ones as far as I’m concerned. What needs to be remade? Why can’t children today enjoy the original film? Ugh.
The silver lining – and I’m really reaching here – is that Brad Copeland has written some episodes of Arrested Development. Yeah, I’m totally reaching. This sucks.
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