‘I care so much about that movie’: Bryce Dallas Howard gives a rare update on her female-led reimagining of a classic
Bryce Dallas Howard is one of those creatives that I trust with my life. If she says she’s going to work on something, I know it will be good. Which includes her female-led reimagining of Flight of the Navigator.
The 1986 film follows David (Joey Cramer), a 12 year-old boy in Florida. When he wakes up randomly in the forest by his house, he learns that he lost 8 years of his life but is still just a 12 year-old kid, not a 20 year-old. A NASA scientist named Dr. Faraday (Howard Hesseman) gives him a chance. David uses a UFO to try and figure out what happened to him in those eight missing years.
It is a sci-fi classic and a staple for Disney fans and Howard was set to direct a new version of the film back in 2021. Since its announcement, we haven’t heard anything about the film until now. Howard was doing press for her new Disney+ documentary Pets when Tessa Smith from Mama’s Geeky asked her about it and expressed her excitement about it.
“I am working so hard. I care so much about that movie,” Howard told Smith. “We are headed in a good direction. That’s all I can say. We are headed in a good direction. Nothing officially greenlit yet. We’re heading in a good direction. I freaking love that movie so much. I just need a Puck Marin. I need a Puck Marin right here. Right here on my shoulder at all times.”
So if you were excited to see a new take on Flight of the Navigator, keep being excited. Nothing is set in stone and we don’t have any official news but at least we know that Howard is still working on the film. And for me, I will watch Howard do literally anything because I trust her and her vision that much.
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