Flight of the Navigator Remake Moves Forward With a New Writer

Flight of the Navigator

The long - bear remaking of the cultus 1980s kid movieFlight of the Navigatoris showing new star sign of life story . An update of the film has been undertake twice before , but has never made it past the early planning stages . Now the showrunner ofLuciferhas been hired to boot the story for modern audiences .

For those not familiar with the original picture show , it was released in 1986 and featured untried doer Joey Cramer as David Freeman , a 12 year - older boy that disappears for 8 years , before returning to his parent having apparently not get on a 24-hour interval . From a family unit mystery story movie it transform into pure sci - fi adventure , as David is reunited with an alien spacecraft that antecedently abducted him ( although the intentions were benignant ) . He give up the UFO from government captivity and bonds with the A.I. that moderate the ship , as they attempt to escape the authorities . The film also feature Sarah Jessica Parker ( Hocus Pocus ) and Veronica Cartwright ( Alien)in substantial roles , as well as some typically wacky voice acting from Paul Reubens ( aka . Pee Wee Herman ) as the foreign A.I. name Max . It was direct by Randal Kleiser , who also madeGrease8 years sooner .

Several attempts have been previously made to get aFlight of the Navigatorremake into theaters . An intended Disney remake was first herald in 2009 , before another remake was planned ( one that Colin Trevorrow would have directed ) three years later . Both of these undertaking fail to employ , but nowTHRis reporting that Joe Henderson has been hire to write a reboot the property , with a horizon to take a fresh translation of the story under the Lionsgate studio . Henderson is best known as the writer and EP forLucifer , and also forge on the Hulu adaptation of Stephen King’s11 - 22 - 63 . The Henson Company is also onboard to grow the picture .

Flight of the Navigator (1986) - Poster

Flight of the Navigatoris now viewed as one of the most notable andcraziest kid ’s moviesfrom the ' 80s . The tale in reality gets quite dark at times , when it deals with the 8 year separation between David and his family , and when he is pursued unrelentingly by the government . However , it ’s belike best remembered for Reuben ’s comic vocal performance and some other CGI effects that were fairly impressive at the clock time of its release . The precious puppetry study for the pocket - sized alien also struck a chord with audiences at the meter .

It will be interesting - assuming that the film actually make it out of early ontogenesis - to see what update and change Henderson would make to the history in a remaking / reboot . The involvement of the Henson Co. suggests that puppetry might still be on the table for some effects , but as involve the sleep of the plot of land and grapheme , anything is potential . Beyond the designation of Henderson , no further details about the remake are known at this point .