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The Rocketeer Gets A Reboot

It looks as though Disney’s ‘The Rocketeer’ is about to take flight… again.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the classic period superhero film ‘The Rocketeer’ is being rebooted… and it sounds as though they’ve got a rather cool plan.

“Walt Disney Studios is developing a reboot of the 1991 action adventure movie,” they revealed. “Hiring Max Winkler and Matt Spicer to pen the script for the project, which is being titled The Rocketeers.”

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And Disney plans to make a rather impressive change to the character.

“The project, in the early development stages, is being looked at as a sequel-reboot and in a modern-day twist, will be headlined by a black female character.”

Although ‘The Rocketeer’ somewhat floundered at the box office, it’s no secret that it went on to cult success… and with rising nostalgia in Hollywood and the small screen, perhaps it was inevitable that we’d see a reboot on the horizon.

‘The Rocketeer’ was based on the popular 1980s indie comic by Dave Stevens, which paid homage to the pulp fiction serials of the 1930s and 1940s… and it was once described as an airborne Indiana Jones.

Set in 1938, stunt pilot Cliff Secord discovers a rocket-powered jet pack which attracts the attention of the FBI… as well as Howard Hughes, and a bunch of sadistic Nazis. And that’s just the half of it.

But what about the reboot?

“The new take keeps the story in a period setting and offers a fresh view on the characters. Set six years after the original Rocketeer and after Secord has vanished while fighting the Nazis, an unlikely new hero emerges: a young African–American female pilot, who takes up the mantle of Rocketeer in an attempt to stop an ambitious and corrupt rocket scientist from stealing jetpack technology in what could prove to be a turning point in the Cold War.”

Could we see a cameo from the original Rocketeer?

For now, we’ll have to wait and see.

But I’d be surprised if he doesn’t turn up somewhere.

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