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Bryce Dallas Howard is set to direct and produce a female-led reimagining of 1986 Flight of the Navigator for Disney +.
As reported by THR, this new version of Flight of the Navigator will also be produced by John Swartz and Justin Springer. Swartz is actually Howard’s partner in production company Nine Muses.
Flight of the Navigator is a movie about a 12 year old boy named David who was abducted by a UFO and wakes up eight years later without growing old and with no memory of what happened. While we don’t know much more about the new project, we do know that David will be replaced by a female protagonist.
This isn’t the first time that a reboot has been planned for Flight of the Navigator, as Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly were previously tied up to write a script for Disney in 2009. Disney would lose the rights to Lionsgate shortly thereafter, and another unsuccessful attempt was in the works with Lucifer showrunner Joe Henderson. Now his rights are back at Disney.
Bryce Dallas Howard has not only starred in Jurassic World and Spider-Man 3, but she has also directed episodes of The Mandalorian and will direct an episode of The Book of Boba Fett. This new movie Flight of the Navigator would be her first credit as a director of a feature film.
Flight of the Navigator was on our list of the 19 TV shows we’d love to see on Disney +, and while it doesn’t appear to be coming as a series, this news should be great for many around the world.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news editor for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Tic.
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