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2009 | 2008
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Geek Gossip: Deadpool, Resident Evil 4, Priest, Thor, Riddick 3, The Black Hole
7 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Welcome to another edition of Geek Gossip, my regular round-up of oddments and nuggets from my bulging inbox.
In today's gallimaufrey of geekery, Reynolds wants a writer, Resident Evil and Priest may get shunted in the schedules, Stan's popping up in Thor, Vin wants another Chronicle and Disney's charting a new course for The Black Hole...
Ryan Reynolds says the search is on for a writer for the Deadpool film, which will develop the character he played in X-Men Origins: Wolverine into the full comic book version.
He said: "I think at this point everyone's just focused on getting the right script and the right tone and the right writer involved and I think from there, the world's your oyster. If you get that right, you're going to get an amazing director.
Asked when there might be definite news, he said: "There's been a lot of meetings and we've met »
- David Bentley
Film Junk Podcast Episode #246: Steven Seagal: Lawman
7 December 2009 12:50 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
0:00 - Intro / In-House Stuff 3:25 - Top 20 Films of the Decade: Spider-Man 2, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Little Children 22:25 - Headlines: Paul Greengrass Drops Bourne 4, Spielberg Drops Harvey Remake, Entourage Movie, The Birds Remake Gets New Director, P.T. Anderson's Next Film, Tim Burton's Frankenweenie Remake, The Black Hole Remake, Universal's Blu-ray DVD Combo Discs 37:00 - Review: Steven Seagal: Lawman 57:10 - Other Stuff We Watched: Amores Perros, George Washington, The Brothers Bloom, The Limits of Control, Dragonheart, Turtles Forever, ** Greg's Story **, Huie’s Sermon, Shadows, Day for Night, Contempt, Rushmore 1:38:55 - Feature: The Films of Wes Anderson 2:10:00 - Junk Mail: Jay Dismisses Fantastic Mr. Fox, Antichrist as Porn, Movies That Tell a Story Without Dialogue, CG vs Practical Effects, Krull Board Game, People Who Give Good Commentaries 2:41:20 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:42:22 - Outro » Download »
- Sean
"Tron: Legacy" Team Enter "The Black Hole"...
3 December 2009 10:31 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Disney's "Tron: Legacy" producer Joseph Kosinski, director Sean Bailey and screenwriter Travis "Clash Of The Titans" Beacham are reteaming for a 'reinvention' of the PG-rated, $26 million, 1979 sci-fi feature "The Black Hole".
The original film followed a group of space explorers aboard 'USS Palomino' who discover the supposedly lost ship 'USS Cygnus' near a 'black hole' in space. Inside the ship is a scientist commanding an army of robots, remnants of the former crew, prepping for a journey into the far reaches of space.
Vancouver-lensed, 3D feature "Tron: Legacy" is set for release December 17, 2010...
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- SneakPeek.Ca
Disney Set To Remake The Black Hole
1 December 2009 11:34 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the director and producer of Disney’s new “Tron: Legacy,” are officially teaming up with Travis Beacham to remake “The Black Hole” the 1979 Disney sci-fi film. The original film was about the explorer crew of the space ship USS Palomino who come across a long-lost ship called the USS Cygnus. Hovering over a black hole in space, the lone survivor onboard the Cygnus is a scientist, commanding an army of faceless robots. The crew soon discover however the horrible truth, that the robots are actually the transformed remnants of the rest of the crew, and that the scientist intends to add them to his [...] »
- Costa Koutsoutis
'Tron' Director Remaking Disney's 'The Black Hole'
1 December 2009 7:46 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »
Always a favorite of my childhood, Disney's The Black Hole will be remade by a team consisting of Tron Legacy director and producer Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey and screenwriter Travis Beacham. The best part about this news is that the technology is so much better than it was in the late 1970s that this could actually be pretty damn good.
The Hollywood Reporter points out, I think appropriately, that this is one of the first projects undertaken by the new Rich Ross regime at the House of Mouse; Ross replaced the very artist-friendly Dick Cook this summer. It could be an interesting one to follow, in no small measure because Black Hole holds a place in Disney history as the first PG film the studio ever released.
It's also worthy of raised eyebrow because Ross put the clamps on another in-house remake, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, which was a »
- Colin Boyd
Another Sci-Fi Remake with The Black Hole
1 December 2009 7:36 PM, PST | FusedFilm | See recent FusedFilm news »
There are a lot of sci-fi movies getting remade including one my favorite films that really changed modern sci-fi, Forbidden Planet.
Now Disney’s The Black Hole, another personal favorite of mine is getting remade and Tron Legacy duo are the ones who are going develop the remake from the 1979 film.
Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey have teamed up with writer Travis Beacham for the reinvention of The Black Hole, a 1979 Disney sci-fi film that held the record for most expensive Disney movie at the time of its making.
The original film followed a group of space explorers aboard the USS Palomino who come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering outside a black hole. Inside the Cygnus, the explorers meet a scientist, commanding an army of faceless robots, who explains his crew deserted him as he planned to go through the black hole. The explorers soon discover that »
- Kevin Coll
Disney Remaking 'The Black Hole' With 'Tron' Team
1 December 2009 5:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
It's a new day at Disney with their new studio chief, Rich Ross, and everyone has been rather eager to see what new direction the studio moved in, and what projects they fast tracked. It turns out that their new vision is a rather old one. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has dug deep into the vaults and decided to remake The Black Hole. They've put Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey on the project, hoping that they can make The Black Hole as cool as they've made all things Tron.
I feel terrible, but I have absolutely no memory of this film. I know I probably saw it at some point, but its lovable droids have been wiped out by multiple viewings of Star Wars, so allow me to recap. The 1979 original centered on a group of space explorers discover the lost USS Cygnus, floating »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Is There a White Light at the end of 'The Black Hole'?
1 December 2009 2:45 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Disney sees a white light at the end of The Black Hole.
That’s why the studio is preparing to re-visit the 1979 sci-fi film, which featured state-of-the-art special effects and an imposing red robot named Maximilian. Leading the remake charge will be Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the directing and producing team of another Disney franchise hopeful, Tron: Legacy, and screenwriter Travis Beacham.
According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision Blog, this new version of The Black Hole is one of the first projects put into development by new studio chief Rich Ross. Plot details are being kept secret, but the remake is expected to take a more "hard sci-fi" approach to black holes, and will still feature Maximilian.
The original film revolved around space explorers who come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus. Inside the ship, they meet a scientist and a group of robots who have »
‘Tron Legacy’ Team Remaking Disney’s ‘The Black Hole’
1 December 2009 2:25 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
The remake/reboot/prequel game is now in full swing around Hollywood, but Disney has shown some promise in this area with the likes of the upcoming Tron Legacy, which made a huge (and somewhat unexpected) splash this past summer at Comic Con. If you haven’t seen the Tron Legacy trailer, then you probably don’t yet know why polishing up an old property can sometimes be a good thing.
Well, Disney is now dusting off another old property and giving it a modern polish -- this time it’s the 1970s “groundbreaking” sci-fi adventure, The Black Hole, which is being put in the hands of the Tron Legacy team and the scribe of the upcoming Clash of The Titans remake.
The actual names behind this project are Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski, producer Sean Bailey and Clash of The Titans writer Travis Beacham. If you’re like me, »
- Kofi Outlaw
'The Black Hole' set for a comeback thanks to 'Tron' visionaries
1 December 2009 1:42 PM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Hold on to your sci-fi hats...apparently Disney's 1979 film, "The Black Hole" is being remade and by the same team that's putting together the sequel to "Tron."
According to Heat Vision, Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the director and producer of "Tron Legacy," are helming the project about an Earth-bound ship encountering a supposedly lost ship hovering near a black hole.
No details released as of yet, except that more science will be included this time around. One can only hope Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, Maximillian, are as ominous as they were in the original. Anyone can have a helper robot, but one with spinning blades as hands? That's priceless.
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Disney Going from Tron to The Black Hole
1 December 2009 10:16 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
The team behind Tron Legacy is not done drawing from Disney's 1980s live-action vault for inspiration.
Per The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog, Tron Legacy's director Joseph Kosinski, producer Sean Bailey and scribe Travis Beacham will reunite to reimagine Disney's The Black Hole for modern audiences.
The project will be the first under new Disney studio chief Rich Ross and will serve as a replacement for the recently shelved 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea redo which Ross was unwilling to move forward on. Ross will certainly want to make a big splash returning to The Black Hole and will likely throw a huge budget at it much like Tron Legacy received.
The only information offered at this time about The Black Hole remake is it will focus more on the science of the space phenomenon and will feature the towering red menace robot Maximilian. Vincent and Old Bob's fate are currently unknown. »
Disney Plans The Black Hole Remake with Tron Legacy Team
1 December 2009 7:54 AM, PST | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
It's hard to believe that a $26 million movie was once the most expensive Disney movie ever made, but such was the case with The Black Hole, a 1979 sci-fi extravaganza that was essentially their response to Star Wars. The movie was slammed by critics but it did turn a profit and also pioneered some interesting special effects at the time. Unfortunately the film hasn't aged well and has been largely forgotten over the years, which makes it a suitable candidate for (you guessed it!) a remake. THR's Heat Vision Blog [1] reports that the team behind their upcoming Tron sequel will also be heading up a reinvention of The Black Hole. This includes Joseph Kosinski, the director of Tron Legacy, along with producer Sean Bailey and screenwriter Travis Beacham. Part of their approach will involve grounding the story in some real world science, apparently. This project will take the place of Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake, »
- Sean
Black Hole Remake Gets Tron: Legacy Creative Team
1 December 2009 5:10 AM, PST | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »
When Tron: Legacy opens December 17, 2010, director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey won't be finished working together. THR reports that the creative team will reunite for a remake of Disney's 1979 The Black Hole.
The original Black Hole followed a research vessel that comes across a ship near a black hole, which has replaced its crew with robots, including the menacing red Maximilian. While details on the remake are being kept secret, it seems that Maximilian will return, while the movie will shift focus to the science of a black hole, more so than the original.
It's unknown how The Black Hole will fit into Kosinksi's schedule, but we assume he will make it after Tron: Legacy. Screenwriter Travis Beacham, who penned the Clash of the Titans remake, will write the script.
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- Ryan Gowland
Disney To Dig Up 'The Black Hole'
1 December 2009 4:49 AM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »
Disney are going back to the eighties with a reinvention of the sci-fi classic The Black Hole. The remake has a top team behind it with direction from Tron Legacy's Joseph Kosinski and screenplay coutesy of Travis Beacham who penned Clash of the Titans. They have also have producer Sean Bailey involved on the potentially 3D project.
The original, directed by Gary Nelson, at the time was the most costly Disney film ever made, and saw the longest computer graphics shot at that point in history leaving it with nominations for cinematography and visual effects at the Academy Awards that year.
The remake will recount in much more detail, the story of spaceship Palamino discovering the presumed dead Dr. Hans Reinhardt in a lost, robot controlled ship hovering over a black hole. Reinhardt, even after twenty years, remains to determind to find what lies beyond the hole - be that immortality or oblivion. »
The Tron Legacy Guys Will Team Up Again To Reboot Disneys Black Hole
1 December 2009 3:55 AM, PST | SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news »
The brain trust behind the upcoming “Tron” sequel, Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey will followup their hopefully awesome light cycle shenanigans with a reboot of Disney’s 1979 classic “The Black Hole”. For those not familiar with the Hole, let me assist you with a kind summary. The crew of the spaceship Palamino stumbles across the ”lost” ship U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering on the edge of an immense black hole. Once aboard, they find the ship is manned by robots – it’s only human inhabitant, one Dr. Hans Reinhardt; an eminent scientist, missing for the past twenty years. His plan – to enter the Black Hole . . . Whether Dr. Reinhardt is a genius or a mad-man, one thing is for sure, he will not be denied his life’s dream. What lies beyond the Black Hole? Immortality . . . or, Oblivion . . . ? This was Disneys answer to that whole “Star Wars” movie thing you might have read about. »
- endymi0n
Back in Black
30 November 2009 11:42 PM, PST | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
With their update of 1982 sci-fi lightfest Tron still in post-production, we've just heard that director Joseph Kasinski and producer Sean Bailey haven't quite finished reimagining our childhoods yet. Next on their event horizon is a remake of Disney's famed failure The Black Hole, which was released in 1979 to disappointing box-office and an array of scientists who foamed at the mouth at its gravitational impossibilities. Focusing on a spaceship lingering at the edges of a black hole - rather than being sucked into it as the...
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- Jayne Nelson
After Tron, The Black Hole
30 November 2009 10:55 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
With Tron Legacy still a year away from release it seems premature to be talking about what that team are planning next. And yet, here we are, with producer and director Sean Bailey and Joseph Kosinski set to plunder the Disney back catalogue once again, with a rejig of the nutso The Black Hole.A lasting psychological scar for anyone who saw it as a child when it was relatively new, The Black Hole was Disney's first film not to carry a U rating, which meant that characters could say "damn" and "hell", and that Anthony Perkins could have his insides minced by the whirling death blades of a giant crimson robot. The plot involves some space explorers (including Ernest Borgnine) stumbling upon Maximilian Schell, living alone at the edge of the titular void, on a ship with an army of faceless automatons. He claims his crew deserted him before »
Nothing escapes from a Black Hole except remakes
30 November 2009 10:05 PM, PST | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
The creative team behind Disney's upcoming Tron: Legacy are falling into a remake of The Black Hole, the studio's then-mega-expensive 1979 sci-fi movie. Tron sequel director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey are now attached to the new Hole along with screenwriter Travis Beacham, a man familiar with remakes since he penned Warner Bros.' new version of Clash of the Titans.
Back in the winter of 1979 Disney took a major gamble and released its first PG-rated movie ever, the $30 million dollar event called The Black Hole. Hoping to find a sweet spot in-between the sci-fi opera of Star Wars but the family friendly movies that Walt Disney was only known for (at the time), The Black Hole opened amid much hype and then proved to be a bomb at the box office. Starring Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux and a scene-chewing Maximilian Schell, it told the story of a group of »
- Patrick Sauriol
From Computer Space To Outer Space, Here Comes The Black Hole
30 November 2009 10:03 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
From sequel to remake, the team behind Tron: Legacy, director Joseph Krasinski and producer Sean Bailey, have signed on to tackle another Disney classic property. Only this time they're going from the inside of a computer chip, to the mysterious chasm known as The Black Hole.The trades has more:Disney is preparing another expedition into “The Black Hole.” Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the director and producer of Disney’s new “Tron: Legacy,” and scribe Travis Beacham are teaming up for what is being labeled a reinvention of the 1979 sci-fi film, which at the time was the most expensive movie Disney had ever produced. “Hole” marks one of the first projects to be put into development by new studio chief Rich Ross. The original followed a group of space explorers aboard the USS Palomino who come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering outside a black hole. Inside the Cygnus, »
The Black Hole Gets A Remake, And It May Blow Your Mind
30 November 2009 10:02 PM, PST | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Disney was there at the dawn of computer animation. They were the first studio to produce feature films using special effects generated with computers. You all know about Tron, their 1982 film which featured whole sequences of fully computer generated animation. The Academy Awards called it cheating. But Tron wasn.t the first. That honor falls to The Black Hole, their underrated (if somewhat cheesy) 1979 science fiction epic which used computers to generate its opening credits sequence. So now that Tron is headed for a resurrection with a hotly anticipated sequel, it only makes sense that The Black Hole gets new life too. THR says Tron: Legacy producers Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey are working on a .reinvention. of the science fiction film. Standard code for .here comes a remake.. Back in 1979 The Black Hole cost $26 million to make and was the most expensive movie Disney had ever made. Unlike Tron, »
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