'TRON Legacy' Director Talks 'Black Hole' Remake

Let's spin the big wheel of general movie topics and see what we land on...sequel, 3-D, TV adaptation, remake, slasher flick, slasher flick remake, 3-D slasher flick remake...hey - it's a remake from the director of a sequel! The sequel is TRON Legacy, and the director of that geekgasm, Joseph Kosinski, is helming a remake of The Black Hole for Disney. Now, there are tons of remakes and sequels and all the rest - hence the first paragraph - but Black Hole falls squarely in that category of perfectly acceptable updates, because the visuals will be much better, and the science will be, too. Kosinski tells MTV that the script is being written soon by Travis Beacham (Clash of the Titans), and I guess that's probably not a bad fit. On the surface, he's completely re-shaped what we thought about Titans - it's grittier, heavier, not as cheesy - and even if he just brings those exact same elements to The Black Hole, it's a step in the right direction. "We've got a really strong idea and concept for the film. The title alone has tremendous amount of potential," says Kosinski. "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." Well, that's not exactly gritty, but it's definitely heavier. And yes, it's probably the right way to go. If you could make a less marginalizing version of Danny Boyle's Sunshine, that's a hit waiting to happen. But what stays and what goes?

"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."

With as many ways to screw up these remakes (and it sure seems like they're trying to do just that), consider me relieved.

Comments

[Carv]

Speaking as a failed screenwriter, THE BLACK HOLE is a property I would very much like to get my hands on. I have no problem at all with "reboots" of bad movies with great pitches, and TBH was certainly one of those. I, too, would have left Maximillian and the Cygnus alone and trashed everything else.

[J.Bradley]

I always thought if they remade it they should have the "mad scientist" taking the intelligence and skills of the former human crew and transferring them to various "worker" robots, all over the ship - kinda' like all the different kinds of 'bots you had in "WALL-E". If they try to stick with the "old dark house" style of the original, then they'll fail again. It's a good SCI-FI premise, so hopefully they'll go THAT route.

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