Last December, it was announced that **Tron Legacy **director Joseph Kosinski had been handed the keys of another venerable Disney title, The Black Hole. Few details were available at the time, but now Kosinski has decided to elaborate a little on what his plans involve.
Turns out, he really is sticking to the mantra from before: he’ll preserve some parts of the film he thinks are fundamental. "It won't be a sequel like Tron," he's told MTV. "This one will be a reimagining. 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."
So what are those ‘timeless’ elements? “I saw Black Hole as a little kid. 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."
Oh, and he still plans to pepper in some realistic science based on modern theories. Well, as “realistic” as you can get considering that black holes aren’t exactly the easiest celestial occurrences to study…
“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."
Perhaps he’ll be able to drive the plot to even darker places (no, we don’t just mean the black hole). But will turn out a modern classic, or will he end up with something that’ll have The Kids Today shrugging and fans of the original mocking it before going home to curl up with their cuddly V.I.N.CENT robot toys?