The Black Hole (1979) - remake!

Richard Dower

Oh!...soo excited about this, i loved the first movie. Hopefully it'll be a good update/remake:

http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2009/11/black-hole-remake-by-tron-team.html

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/rorschachsrants/news/?a=14767

eamon234

It's already been remade albeit with slightly different subject matter;)

mike65

First film was terrible apart from rather colourful sets and special effects. Shocking "old School" Disney charactisations and role play, I don't like remakes as a rule but this one might well work.

From article

The $26 million movie, which featured a menacing red robot named Maximilian and two smaller, friendlier robots, was Disney’s first PG-rated production and helped put the company on the special effects map.

Er hello! Disneys SFX dept was creating small miracles since the early 50s. Treasure Island,20,000 Leagues under the Sea, The Absent-Minded Professor, Mary Poppins, The Island at the Top of the World etc.

bonerm

Yet another one of the slew of awful sci-fi blockbusters that came out in the years following Star Wars.

AllGunsBlazing

Saw the original as a child and remember it mostly for the Maximilian robot character and the death scene with Anthony Perkins.

Pretty strong stuff for a Disney flick and the ending left me a bit shook up as well. Quite an underrated movie imo.


I suspect this remake will be more on the fast edit/action tip though.

Maximilian

That robot was awesome. Had a brilliant name too.

Richard Dower

^ was your screen name inspired by same? :-)
Maximilian was a very memorable character/robot....i had a scale model of it when i was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1dkS3J_Fo0

Maximilian

No, actual name believe it or not.

bnt

I'm pretty sure I predicted they'd remake this, at least a year ago. There's so much more power in CGI now, the Black Hole itself could be made more terrifying and scientifically accurate. :cool:

Duggy747

Tbh honest if they took this seriously this could be alright of a movie, no doubt it would be EPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC and CGI heavy.

If they do I hope they give Ernest Borgnine a nod, always liked that guy.

Though V.I.N.C.E.N.T. and BOB robots always reminded me of Henry The Hoover I always loved Slim Pickens voice in it as a kid.

Richard Dower

VINCENT and BOB might be left out of the remake though, if they do keep them i hope they use Roddy Mcdowel again as the voice of VINCENT.

I suspect Max will be all CGI.

Ruu_Old

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Saw the original as a child and remember it mostly for the Maximilian robot character and the death scene with Anthony Perkins.

Pretty strong stuff for a Disney flick and the ending left me a bit shook up as well. Quite an underrated movie imo.


I suspect this remake will be more on the fast edit/action tip though.

Yep, the ending got me as well, a bit mad! Reinhardts madness is similar to that of Captain Nemo (James Mason) in the 1954 Disney version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Richard Dower

http://ie.movies.ign.com/articles/110/1104789p1.html

Richard Dower

Richard Dower wrote: »

VINCENT and BOB might be left out of the remake though, if they do keep them i hope they use Roddy Mcdowel again as the voice of VINCENT..

That's going to be difficult seeing as he's been dead for over a decade.

Richard Dower

^ Malcolm then...who voiced him?

irishh_bob

Maximilian wrote: »

That robot was awesome. Had a brilliant name too.

wasnt the lead actor ( in real life ) called maxmillian something or other too

mike65

Schnell! Schnell! Maximilian Schell!

Richard Dower

YES!...it's definately being remade by Disney....can't wait!

bnt

The director is Joe Kosinski (TRON Legacy), who talked about it here:

“BLACK HOLE is not going to be a sequel, this is a true reboot,” says the director. “We’re keeping the core concept of what it’s like to go to these things. We know so much more about black holes now and I’m really interested in that hard science angle. You don’t have to make up stuff. The phenomenon that surrounds black holes in terms of the warping of time and space is stuff you dream about. It’s pretty incredible stuff, so we’ll see. We’re going to definitely keep some of those iconic elements of that 1979 film I remembered seeing as a kid and being terrified by some of those elements.”

Good to hear him talking about the "hard science" side of the story. I wonder whether we'll see someone getting spaghettified? :eek: