Director Joseph Kosinski will be fiddling with his sequel TRON LEGACY for a while (it’s not due until December), but he’ll poke at another Disney update during whatever downtime he can find.
Kosinski and writer Travis Beacham (CLASH OF THE TITANS) are “re-inventing” the 1979 sci-fi flick THE BLACK HOLE, about the members of deep space exploration vessel Palomino, who encounter a black hole and a huge spacecraft suspended above it — the long-lost Cygnus. On board the vessel, they discover the mad doctor Hans Reinhardt and an army of robots, and learn the mystery behind the Cygnus and its crew.
What goes and what stays? Kosinski tells MTV that it won’t be a straight follow-up like he did with TRON, but “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 [Kubrick’s] 2001.“
Fans of the original shouldn’t fear the disappearance of the film’s coolest aspect, the protagonist’s blood-red robotic bodyguard. “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.”
Kosinski also spoke at the recent 5D Conference, and showed a reel of his commercials (Gears of War, Halo, etc.) and talked about how he ultimately got connected with David Fincher and the digital world of TRON.
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