BLACK HOLE will be a "re-imagining", not a sequel

Wednesday, February 10, 2010



Tron Legacy director Joseph Kosinski tells MTV that his upcoming version of Disney's The Black Hole will be a "re-imagining" but will feature many elements from the original film.

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. 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.

I suppose a sequel wouldn't have worked. (After all, where do you go after the trippily ambiguous ending of the original film?) But I'm boycotting this movie unless they have one ugly floating robot that talks like Roddy McDowall and another that talks like Slim Pickens. VINCENT and BOB are a part of this thing, Kosinski, or no deal!

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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

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Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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