Disney's The Black Hole remake

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Disney's 1979 The Black Hole may not be a classic, but for many genre fans of a certain generation it remains a cheeseball favorite.

And now, it's about to get the remake treatment.

The Hollywood Reporter has the news that the studio has brought in the team behind their Tron reboot/sequel, Tron: Legacy, to revive The Black Hole. Director Joseph Kosinski and producer Sean Bailey have been charged with reimagining what was, back in 1979, the most expensive Disney movie ever made.

Clash of the Titans remake scribe Travis Beacham will pen the project, which is one of the first films to be put into development by new studio chief Rich Ross.

The original film was about the crew of the Palomino, a rather bland group of futuristic Earth astronauts who stumble upon a long-lost ship called the Cygnus, which is captained by none other than a raving mad Maximilian Schell -- who has a really cool and mean robot named… Maximilian! The mysterious and creepy Schell plans on exploring the black hole he's discovered, and it's up to the Palomino's Robert Forster, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Anthony Perkins -- plus their trusty robot V.I.N.CENT. (voiced by Roddy McDowall) to get to the bottom of things.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, V.I.N.CENT.'s name stands for "Vital Information Necessary CENTralized." And he's got ESP, even though he's a robot.

The 1979 picture was Disney's first PG-rated film -- perhaps because of the disemboweling of Perkins scene, for one thing -- and it also was one of the first movies to utilize CGI.

"The details of the update are being kept secret, though the take does involve grounding the story in the science of a black hole, much more so than in the original," says the trade paper. "Maximilian also would return."

If they bring back Maximilian then they've got to bring back V.I.N.CENT. too. And old B.O.B. Don't forget about old B.O.B.!

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theres one prob i c so far
Maximilian Schell is INSIDE his creation...so:
what black hole has he/it went thru?
where is this "black hole" at
and hasnt it gotten stronger since then??