Hey, remember when we were getting all silly over the idea of Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) directing Star Wars Episode VII? Well, it turns out that he’ll be writing and possibly directing Disney’s Flight of the Navigator reboot instead. Way back in 2009 when we reported of Disney’s plans for the remake, Brad Copeland (Wild Hogs) had been hired to pen the first draft. Now, Trevorrow will do a rewrite along with his Safety Not Guaranteed writer, Derek Connolly. Hit the jump for more on the project, including a comment from Connolly and another mysterious project the duo have in development at Disney.
Variety reported 
that Trevorrow and Connolly will team for a rewrite on Flight of the Navigator with the reboot being a possible directing vehicle for Trevorrow. Though Trevorrow was understandably excited about the possibility of taking on this property, Connolly was quick to comment on the duo’s balanced writing approach:
“‘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.”
Trevorrow and Connolly have also sold another pitch to Disney, the logline of which is being kept quiet. Trevorrow is also attached to direct that picture.
The 1986 original Flight of the Navigator featured a 12-year-old boy who disappears for eight years, but returns without having aged a day; at the same time as the boy’s reappearance, a spacecraft crashes and is seized by NASA. The film was directed by Randal Kleiser and starred Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright and Sarah Jessica Parker, with Paul Reubens as the voice of the ship’s pilot. Check out the original trailer and poster below:
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I loved this movie as a child, and for the most part, it holds up. Bought it on DVD about 10 years ago, still enjoy watching it from time to time.
No no no no no! Stop remaking things unnecessarily, Disney!! This movie isn’t even 30 years old yet and it’s still great. Some of those ship morphing effects hold up just as well as the T-1000 for me. It’s not like the first one was so bad, or that so much time has passed. Why remake it? Remakes are a dangerous precedent. For every one Freaky Friday there’s a Flubber. And that’s not even counting the remakes done for TV (Escape to Witch Mountain — AWFUL, Absent-Minded Professor with Harry Anderson — not too bad, and a sort of sequel to the original, but unnecessary; Return of the Shaggy Dog — completely ignored the sequel that already existed; and oh yeah, another Freaky Friday!)
You just know the great Beach Boys music will get replaced with something awful. And how can you top young Sarah Jessica Parker with purple hair?
There are plenty of Horses out there that will not complain about a purple wig. That part is an unnecessary complaint.