Safety Not Guaranteed team to rewrite Flight Of The Navigator remake

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Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly hired to rework script

Disney’s remake of Flight Of The Navigator has acquired a new pair of writers in Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly.

The Safety Not Guaranteed director (Trevorrow) and writer (Connolly) will rework an initial script turned in by Brad Copeland (best known for his work on Arrested Development ).

The appointment would appear to be a shrewd move, seeing as the pair tackle time-travel and comedy to great effect in Safety , and they could bring a rough-and-ready charm to Flight Of The Navigator .

According to Variety ’s report, the remake is being developed as a possible directing vehicle for Trevorrow.

The original Flight... opened in 1986, and became something of a cult hit. It followed the adventures of a boy who woke up in a ditch, eight years in the future, before befriending a talking AI-controlled spaceship.

Matt Maytum
Matt Maytum
Former Editor of Total Film magazine

Matt Maytum is the former Editor of Total Film magazine. Over the past decade, Matt has worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting from the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Sundance Film Festival.