Selome Hailu editorBryce Dallas Howard is set to direct and produce Walt Disney Studios’ reboot of “Flight of the Navigator,” which reimagines the original with a female lead.
The new movie, which marks Howard’s feature directorial debut, is slated to premiere exclusively on Disney Plus.The original “Flight of the Navigator” was directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H.
Baker, Michael Burton and Matt MacManus in 1986. The family sci-fi adventure film followed 12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer), who goes unconscious after falling down in the woods, only to get abducted by an alien spaceship that transports him from 1978 to 1986.
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