Contrary to rumors of his potential involvement with Star Wars: Episode VII, Disney has tapped Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow to rewrite and direct its remake of another old classic: Flight of the Navigator.
The original 1986 sci-fi film told the tale of a 12-year-old boy who goes missing and mysteriously reappears eight years later without aging a day. Arrested Development‘s Brad Copeland penned the first draft of the remake back in 2009.
Trevorrow will rewrite the script with Safety Not Guaranteed scribe Derek Connolly, who spoke with Variety about his experience with the original: “Flight of the Navigator wasn’t a seminal movie of my childhood but I remember liking it and the original meant a lot to Colin as a kid, so it’s really his baby. It’ll be good to have some balance so it’s not two fanboys writing the movie.”
David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are set to produce the project through their Mandeville production house. Despite only releasing their first feature film earlier this year, Trevorrow and Connolly (who was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the 2013 Spirit Awards yesterday) already have dealings with the Mouse House. The duo recently sold an original pitch to Disney with The Twilight Saga producer Temple Hill, although story details are being kept under lock and key.
Going back to the Star Wars angle, this takes yet another name out of the race for the director’s chair, as many believed Trevorrow to already have the job given his involvement with Disney on what we now know as this project. Although Trevorrow essentially said as much recently in a tweet:
To clarify, there is another film we all love that I’m currently trying not to mess up. Odds I will direct Episode VII: 3720 to 1.
— Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) November 19, 2012
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We’re trusting he won’t mess it up.
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