Disney Wants to Reboot The Rocketeer
The Hollywood Reporter has published an article stating that Walt Disney Studios is developing a reboot for its classic 1991 movie The Rocketeer. Two writers, Max Winkler and Matt Spicer, have reportedly already been hired to write the script, which is currently going under the title of The Rocketeers.
The new film would be a period piece like the original, with a storyline set six years after Cliff Secord fought the Nazis. Secord has vanished and a young African-American female pilot takes the role of the Rocketeer to stop a corrupt rocket scientist from stealing the jet pack technology.
Tendo Nagenda and Chaz Salembier are overlooking the project for Disney. Brigham Taylor is producing the film with Blake Griffin and Ryan Kalil.
The original film hailed from a 1980s comic book created by Dave Stevens, and it was directed by Joe Johnston, starring Billy Campbell and Jennifer Connelly. The first movie only earned about $46 million and was seen as a disappointment. However, over the years, the film has become something of a cult classic.
Hollywood has been reboot crazy on just about any pre-existing property, even if it wasn’t a big hit before. It remains to be seen if this treatment can work for The Rocketeer, but we shall see. The story at least sounds like a continuation of the original, but it sounds like none of the original actors will be involved at all.