Disney’s latest revival shakes up the movie industry while returning pilots and jet-packs to the silver screen, says the Hollywood Reporter. Action, history, pro-athlete producers, and a Black female hero all make its way into the sequel of 1991’s The Rocketeer.
With inspiration from a comic of the same name, the original film threw pilot Cliff Secord into a whirlwind of mobsters, Nazis, moguls, and special agents around World War II. Secord dumps planes for a rocket and a suit, and gets transformed into the titular character, the Rocketeer. In 2012, Vulture reported a possible sequel-reboot in talks at Disney. Now four years later, reports unveil a new version to the popular film.
The sequel falls six years later after Secord and debuts a new pilot assuming the rocketeer suit—black and female during the 1940s. She takes on a rocket scientist whose thieving plot can greatly impact the Cold War.
Brigham Taylor brings his expertise from The Jungle Book to team up with Los Angeles Clipper Blake Griffin and Carolina Panther Ryan Kalil to produce Disney’s latest work. Tendo Nagenda and Chaz Salembier of Disney are also on board. Together, they face the challenge to become as big of a box-office hit as the 1991 original.
