The Return of the Rocketeer (ex Rocketeer reboot), Disney+ / ex Walt Disney Pictures Opzioni

[Beast]

Secondo Vulture, la Disney sta valutando di riportare il Rocketeer sul grande schermo e sta cercando gli sceneggiatori. Già adoro Horn! :woot:


Exclusive: Disney’s The Rocketeer Being Reloaded

Now that Disney’s troubled movie studio is under new management, our spies tells us that, curiously, one of the first properties to be developed for a feature film is a reboot of 1991’s thirties-set adventure film, The Rocketeer.

We say ‘curiously’ because while the property was actually a flop at the time, its similarity to the current Disney-Marvel cash cow Iron Man is more than a little striking: In it, a racing pilot named Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) discovers a rocket-pack prototype in his stunt plane, hidden there by the gangsters who stole it from Howard Hughes; Secord tries it out, and, like Tony Stark, quickly discovers that a) flying without a plane is SO cool, and you gotta fight the bad guys (including Timothy Dalton, who two years prior had starred as James Bond for the second time) and save the girl (a luminous Jennifer Connelly).

While both properties are based on comic books, Iron Man actually arrived on the scene first: The Rocketeer was first published in 1982 by tiny (and now, sadly, defunct) Pacific Comics, and was conceived by artist Dave Stevens as an homage to the serial action heroes of the thirties. By the time Disney released The Rocketeer in 1991, Pacific had already been liquidated for half a decade. Stevens lost a battle with leukemia in March 2008 – just two months before Marvel’s adaptation of Iron Man was released.

We’re told the studio will soon be meeting with various writers to come up with a take. But its reappearance at Disney now, of course, begs the question: Why? What is new studio chief Alan Horn up to? It could be an early sign that the former Warner Bros. chief doesn’t just view his new job at Disney Studios as that of a mere portfolio manager, content to make sure acquisitions like Marvel, The Muppets, and Pixar, which keep churning out their own properties as Disney’s brand withers. That would be good news, indeed.

We’ll keep you updated as we hear more.

http://www.vulture.com/2012/08/disneys-the...g-reloaded.html

[Claudio]

E' una bella notizia! Peccato che non ho mai visto il film originale, spero lo facciano presto in bd

[Scissorhands]

Lo sapevo lo sapevo!!
Ne ero strasicuro!!!

[-kekkomon-]

Non mi entusiasma molto... l'originale è stupendo.

[-kekkomon-]

Da BadTaste:
A 21 anni dall'uscita nei cinema di tutto il mondo, The Rocketeer (da noi noto come Le Avventure di Rocketeer) è pronto per tornare al cinema... in forma di remake.

Diretto da Joe Johnston, il film del 1991 non è stato un tale successo da spingere la Disney, all'epoca, a farne un sequel. Tuttavia secondo quanto riporta Vulture il nuovo capo dei Walt Disney Studios ed ex Warner Alan Horn è convinto che questa proprietà possa ottenere vita nuova attraverso un remake, nonostante l'originale sia ormai considerato un classico.

La storia del film segue le vicende del pilota Cliff Secord che, con l'aiuto del suo amico meccanico Peevy, scopre il prototipo segreto di uno zainetto a propulsione. Lo utilizza per diventare una sorta di supereroe, un uomo mascherato in grado di volare che combatte i Nazisti nella Los Angeles degli anni trenta. Nel cast, oltre a Bruce Campbell e Alan Arkin, anche Terry O'Quinn e Jennifer Connelly.

[veu]

Si torna a parlare del film che ora sarà per Disney +.

Dal sito DeadLine:

‘The Rocketeer’ Making A Comeback On Disney+ With David Oyelowo Producing & Circling To Star; Ed Ricourt Penning

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is reviving a cult classic favorite, The Rocketeer, with a new Disney+ movie titled The Return of the Rocketeer. David and Jessica Oyelowo are producing under their Yoruba Saxon banner. The project, written by Ed Ricourt, will also be a possible starring project for the Selma actor.

The original movie, released in 1991, was directed by Joe Johnston and adapted from Dave Stevens’ graphic novel. In that film, which made close to $47 million at the domestic box office and became a fan fave for the studio, a young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.

The Return of the Rocketeer will have an all-new creative directive, with Ricourt’s story focusing on a retired Tuskegee airman who takes up the Rocketeer mantle.

Brigham Taylor is also producing alongside Yoruba Saxon. Mortal Media exec producing. This is the first film under Yoruba Saxon’s first-look deal with Disney, which we first told you about. The Return of the Rocketeer is being developed by the Disney live-action team.

Ricourt wrote Lionsgate’s hit feature Now You See Me which grossed more than $351M worldwide and spawned a sequel that made close to $335M globally. He’s written for Marvel/Netflix’s Jessica Jones on which he was also a consulting producer; Wayward Pines; and produced and wrote the Netflix series Raising Dion. He is repped by Verve, Adam Kolbrenner’s Lit Entertainment Group and attorney George Davis.

Yoruba Saxon Productions was founded by David and Jessica Oyelowo and is focused on creating values-based content across all platforms and for all quadrants, with an aim to shift the culture and color outside the lines. Previous and upcoming film and TV projects include Nightingale (HBO), Captive (Paramount), A United Kingdom (Fox Searchlight), Come Away (Relativity Media), Five Nights in Maine (FilmRise), The Water Man (RLJE Films/Netflix), Ferguson Rises (PBS), Solitary (Bron) and First Gen (Disney+).

Oyelowo is repped by CAA, Hamilton Hoddell and Del, Shaw.