We told you last December that “Tron Legacy” director Joseph Kosinski, along with Sean Bailey, and writer Travis Beacham were teaming up to bring a re-imagining of the 1979 Disney Sci-Fi film “The Black Hole” to the big screen. In a recent interview, Kosinski gave up some details on the film’s central concepts and revealed that Beacham (“Clash of the Titans”) will begin work on the script early this year.

Kosinski said,

“We’ve got a really strong idea and concept for the film, The title alone has tremendous amount of potential. We’ve got a really talented writer on it named Travis Beecham. We’re just getting started on the script in the next few months.”

“It won’t be a sequel like ‘Tron,’ This one will be a re-imagining. For me, it would be taking ideas and iconic elements that struck me as timeless and cool and preserving them while weaving a new story around them that’s a little more ‘2001.’”

“I saw ‘Black Hole’ as a little kid, What sticks out most is the robot Maximilian. The blades and the vicious killing of Anthony Perkins. That freaked me out and that’s definitely going to be an element that will be preserved. The design of the Cygnus ship is one of the most iconic spaceships ever put to film.

“From a conceptual point of view, we know so much more about black holes now, the crazy things that go on as you approach them due to the intense gravitational pull and the effects on time and space. All that could provide us with some really cool film if we embrace it in a hard science way.”