The Black Hole (2016)

Name: The Black Hole (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller

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Tron 3 and The Black Hole Updates from Director Joseph Kosinski

B. Alan OrangeJul 11, 2013

The director behind Tron: Legacy and Oblivion promises that scripts are being written and that the movies are still coming.

The Black Hole Remake Lands Prometheus Writer Jon Spaihts

Apr 4, 2013

Joseph Kosinski is attached to direct this sci-fi reboot about a group of space explorers who find a lost ship outside a massive black hole.

Joseph Kosinski Gives The Black Hole Updates

Feb 9, 2010

The Tron Legacy director speaks out about his new remake.

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2016

Director

Joseph Kosinski

Writer

Jon Spaihts

The Black Hole Synopsis

Joseph Kosinski and Sean Bailey, the director and producer of Disney's upcoming "Tron Legacy," and screenwriter Travis Beacham are teaming up for a reinvention of the 1979 sci-fi film "The Black Hole."

In the original, the explorer craft U.S.S. Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the magnificent U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, Maximillian. But the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans, which involve turning his former crew into robots and flying through the hole. As they try to escape, a meteorite shower damages the ship, and the survivors hang on as they are plunged into the most powerful force in the universe, heading toward the blinding light that holds whatever eternity awaits them.

The details of the update are being kept secret, though the take does involve grounding the story in the science of a black hole, much more so than in the original. The 1979 film was a loose retelling of Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"!