Spaihts Takes On "Black Hole" Redux Script

Jon Spaihts, the writer behind "The Darkest Hour" and the early drafts of "Prometheus," has been hired to work on the script for Disney's  remake of its 1979 sci-fi epic "Black Hole"says Heat Vision

Travis Beacham wrote a previous draft.

The original film was, at the time the most expensive film the studio ever made, followed a group of space explorers aboard the USS Palomino. The group come across a lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering outside a Black Hole. Inside, they meet a scientist (Maximilian Schell) commanding an army of faceless robots who says the crew deserted him as he planned to go through the black hole.  The explorers soon discover that the robots are the remnants of the former crew and that the scientist has no intention of letting them leave.

Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, and Ernest Borgnine also starred in the first film

The new version has been described as a big-scale epic that is "philosophical and somewhat dark in tone". It's unknown if the robots Maximillian, V.I.N.CENT and B.O.B. will be incorporated.

Joseph Kosinski ("TRON: Legacy," "Oblivion") is attached to direct.

Justin Springer will produce the film.