Tom Jolliffe offers up a second round of essential time travel movies… Having already established that cinema has a longstanding fascination with time travel with my previous ten essentials, it’s high time to add another ten to the mix. As a starting point for so many films it goes without saying that there have been […]
The Film and TV Reboot Explosion
Tom Jolliffe looks at a current explosion of reboots in film and TV, with many from properties no one remembers anyway… The idea of a reboot isn’t exactly unfamiliar. Hollywood is on a very well worn trail that is littered with remakes, reboots, sequels, whatever you want to call them. Some might say Hollywood has […]
Bryce Dallas Howard directing female-led reboot of Flight of the Navigator for Disney+
Flight of the Navigator is one of those cherished childhood VHS vehicles which has been the subject of sequel and reboot rumours for longer than David Freeman was abducted in the 1986 family film, but now it appears to have finally landed at Disney+, with Bryce Dallas Howard producing and directing a female-led reboot. Deadline […]
Neill Blomkamp’s OATS Studios remaking Flight of the Navigator?
After releasing a number of acclaimed shorts [watch them here], it looks like District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp’s OATS Studios has now found its first feature project, with the South African filmmaker revealing on Twitter that the studio is set to tackle the remake of the 80s favourite Flight of the Navigator. https://twitter.com/NeillBlomkamp/status/933113269652303877 […]
Lucifer showrunner to write Flight of the Navigator reboot
It looks like Hollywood is set to take another crack at a reboot of the 80s sci-fi adventure Flight of the Navigator, with THR reporting that Joe Henderson, showrunner of Fox’s Lucifer, has signed on to pen the script for Lionsgate. The 1986 movie, directed by Randal Kleiser (Grease), revolved around a 12-year-old boy who […]
