The film is set to feature a young, black, female pilot taking up the hero’s mantle from the original Rocketeer.
The very next year, word hit the street that Disney was developing a revival of The Rocketeer.
The original film hit theaters in 1991 to modest box office earnings, sporting a WWII setting and a relatively unknown comic book hero with an adventurous spirit and an old-timey sensibility.
Next on his to-do list is the in-development The Secret Life of Houdini, but he recently revealed that he once had eyes on Disney’s The Rocketeer franchise.