
By Robbie Graham
New writer-director team also developing United Nations alien contact movie
Disney’s 1986 alien abduction fantasy Flight of the Navigator has been placed on ‘remake row’, with an updating of the movie now in active development at the House of Mouse. The original movie was directed by Randal Kleiser (Grease), and followed a 12 year-old boy who mysteriously vanishes while walking in the woods one evening only to reappear eight years later having not aged a day. Meanwhile, an alien spacecraft is discovered nearby, which NASA scientists believe may explain the boy's disappearance.
A remake has been on the cards since 2009, when Brad Copeland (Arrested Development) was hired to pen the first script draft. Now, Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow have been hired to rework the new script, which the latter is set to direct....
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