EXCLUSIVE: Disney is reviving a cult classic favorite, The Rocketeer, with an all new Disney+ movie entitled The Return of the Rocketeer which David and Jessica Oyelowo are producing under their Yoruba Saxon banner.
The project, written by Ed Ricourt, will also be a possible starring project for The Selma actor.The original movie, released in 1991, was directed by Joe Johnston and adapted from the Dave Stevens graphic novel of the same name.
In that film, which made close to $47M at the domestic B.O. and became a fan fave for the studio, a young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.The Return of the Rocketeer will have an all-new creative directive with Ricourt’s story focusing on a
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