• Team
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms Of Use
  • Submit Guest Post
  • Editorial Policy
Nilsen Report
  • Home
  • TORONTO
  • MONTREAL
  • VANCOUVER
  • QUEBEC CITY
  • HAMILTON
  • BEST RATED
  • News
    • Brand Post
    • International
    • Canada
    • Tech
    • Entertainment
    • Music
    • Health
  • Home
  • TORONTO
  • MONTREAL
  • VANCOUVER
  • QUEBEC CITY
  • HAMILTON
  • BEST RATED
  • News
    • Brand Post
    • International
    • Canada
    • Tech
    • Entertainment
    • Music
    • Health
No Result
View All Result
Morning News
No Result
View All Result

The Rocketeer 2: All you need to know

Wony by Wony
October 26, 2021
in Entertainment
0
the rocketeer
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

A sequel to the cult film The Rocketeer is being developed by Disney and Selma star David Oyelowo.

 

READ ALSO

Will Trent Season 2: To be Renewed or Canceled?

Bad Education Season 5: When will it Release and What to expect?

The Rocketeer, based on the classic book series of the same name, was released in June 1991 by Disney and was a minor box office success but fell short of the studio’s expectations. However, it developed a cult following over time, and director Joe Johnston was able to work on another superhero era film, Captain America: The First Avenger, twenty years after The Rocketeer was released. Since the movie was well liked, Disney sees an opportunity to revive it, thus a new Rocketeer is in the works. This is a soft-reboot of the Rocketeer story. It’s even been dubbed Rocketeer 2.

 

Disney never completely abandoned The Rocketeer concept. While there never was an official sequel, Disney Junior did release an animated series called The Rocketeer that followed a young girl named Kit as she became the new Rocketeer. The series even featured Billy Campbell, the star of the 1991 film, as Kit’s father Dave and a cameo role as the original Rocketeer, Cliff Secord. The series was discontinued after one season, but the combination of the series and the film’s long impact demonstrates that The Rocketeer still has possibilities for Disney.

The Rocketeer 2: Is it Confirmed?

According to Deadline, Disney is working on a sequel called The Return of the Rocketeer, which will debut on Disney+. David and Jessia Oyelowo will produce the film, with the possibility of David Oyelowo starring in it. The script will be written by Ed Ricourt (Now You See Me), and it will follow a retired Tuskegee airman who takes on the character of the Rocketeer.

 

This isn’t the first time Disney has contemplated casting a Black lead in a Rocketeer film. In 2016, Disney was producing The Rocketeers, a film about a young African-American female pilot who discovers the original Rocketeers’ equipment. Matt Spicer and Max Winkler (Flower and Magic Camp) wrote the script, however it never got past the announcement stage and may have been changed into this current project.

 

The Return of the Rocketeer comes five years after it was announced that the Rocketeer property would be revived with The Rocketeers, starring a Black female lead. 10 Dan Trachtenberg, the director of Cloverfield Lane, also offered a Rocketeer reboot to Disney, which would have seen the Nazis invade New York City, but nothing came of it. In recent years, however, we haven’t been without Rocketeer material, as a Disney Junior series starring Cliff Secord’s great-granddaughter, Kit Secord, has been flying around and safeguarding Hughesville.

Remember The Rocketeer?

Billy Campbell featured as test pilot Cliff Secord, who uncovers a rocket device concealed inside an aircraft and finds himself in the centre of a mob war and a Nazi invasion in the original Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, and Terry O’Quinn also starred as Howard Hughes in the cult classic Disney film.

Dave Stevens, a writer and artist for Pacific Comics, developed The Rocketeer in 1982. 

 

After Pacific Comics failed in 1986, Disney bought The Rocketeer IP and planned a film for Touchstone Pictures. Unfortunately, the picture only made $62 million in its first year of release in 1991. Despite its disappointing box office performance, The Rocketeer was considered for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, but both were won by Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

 Is the reboot of ‘The Rocketeer’ set for a release date?

The picture has yet to be given a release date, and no information on when filming will begin has been disclosed. But the wheels are in action, and we’ll keep an eye out for further information as it becomes available from the studio.

 

Related

Related Posts

Will Trent Season 2
Entertainment

Will Trent Season 2: To be Renewed or Canceled?

January 20, 2023
Bad Education Season 5
Entertainment

Bad Education Season 5: When will it Release and What to expect?

January 19, 2023
homecoming
Entertainment

Homecoming season 3: Release date, Cast and Plot

January 18, 2023
oak island
Entertainment

The Curse of Oak Island Season 11: All you need to know

January 18, 2023
BROKENWOOD
Entertainment

The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 9: When is it coming and other updates?

January 18, 2023
Texas Metal Season 7
Entertainment

Texas Metal Season 7: Release date, Cast, and Plot updates

January 18, 2023
Next Post
searching 2

Searching 2: All you need to know?

Popular News

oak island

The Curse of Oak Island Season 11: All you need to know

January 18, 2023
BROKENWOOD

The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 9: When is it coming and other updates?

January 18, 2023
what is an information system

What is an information system? 4 types you should know about

January 18, 2023
Texas Metal Season 7

Texas Metal Season 7: Release date, Cast, and Plot updates

January 18, 2023

EDITOR'S PICK

nora

Awkwafina is Nora from Queens Season 3: Release date and everything we know so far

July 7, 2022
ultraman

Ultraman Season 2: Everything you need to know

February 10, 2022
el chapo

El Chapo Season 4: Why Was Season 4 Canceled?

October 5, 2021
Hyperdrive season 2: Everything we know so far

Hyperdrive season 2: Everything we know so far

May 4, 2022

About

Nilsen Report is an independent publication house which believes in bringing light to the latest News. We have explored nooks and corners of the world . This blog has well-crafted articles explaining the need-to-knows about the things happening around the globe.

Follow us

Categories

  • BEST RATED
  • Canada
  • Cover
  • Cover 2019
  • Design
  • Entertainment
  • Events Toronto
  • Fashion
  • Festival Season 18
  • Film Maker
  • forex
  • Games
  • HAMILTON
  • Health
  • Hip Hop
  • Home 10
  • International
  • Interviews
  • LifeStyle
  • MONTREAL
  • Movies
  • Music
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • Tech
  • TORONTO
  • Travel
  • TV Shows/ Web Series
  • Uncategorized
  • VANCOUVER
  • Videogames
  • Viral
  • World Cup 2018

Recent Posts

  • Will Trent Season 2: To be Renewed or Canceled?
  • The impact of the Canadian gambling industry on native communities
  • Twitter is arguably already the least wrong source of truth on the Internet, Tweets “Elon Musk”
  • The Best Casino Games of 2022
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • TORONTO
  • MONTREAL
  • VANCOUVER
  • QUEBEC CITY
  • HAMILTON
  • BEST RATED
  • News
    • Brand Post
    • International
    • Canada
    • Tech
    • Entertainment
    • Music
    • Health

© 2023 JNews - Premium WordPress news & magazine theme by Jegtheme.