Fans of Joe Johnston’s 1991 Disney movie The Rocketeer have been ready 30 years for this information: a brand new, live-action Rocketeer movie is formally within the works. It’s known as The Return of the Rockeeter and it’s being developed for Disney+.

According to Deadline, David Oyelowo (Selma, Star Wars Rebels) is among the many producers and should star within the challenge, which “will have an all-new creative directive … focusing on a retired Tuskegee airman who takes up the mantle of the Rocketeer.” That seems like a reboot-sequel if you happen to ask me.

Ed Ricourt (Now You See Me, Wayward Pines) wrote the screenplay which is being produced below the banner Yoruba Saxon, an organization run by David and Jessica Oyelowo. It signed a first-look take care of Disney earlier this summer season after David Oyelowo’s directorial debut, The Water Man, was launched.

The Rockeeter initially starred Bill Campbell as a stunt pilot named Cliff who occurs upon an experimental jet pack within the late Nineteen Thirties. A jet pack {that a} group of Nazis are additionally after, as they consider it’ll assist them take over the world. And so the movie turns into a really thrilling, interval superhero movie with Cliff ultimately defeating the Nazis. It co-starred Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, and Paul Sorvino, and is on Disney+ now. If you haven’t seen it, or haven’t seen it shortly, it’s nonetheless actually wonderful.

Watching it even now, the movie seems like a franchise starter. So Disney was absolutely disenchanted when, upon launch, it did not gross even $50 million within the U.S. Since then, the movie has all the time has a really passionate legion of followers, lots of whom are filmmakers and actors themselves, so there have been blips or rumors of Rocketeer initiatives over time (there was even a short-lived animated children sequence). This one, nevertheless, is by far essentially the most promising one but, and followers have Disney+ and the Oyelowos to thank.

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