Trevorrow Talks “Navigator” Remake Challenge

Filmmaker Colin Trevorrow has steered the “Jurassic World” franchise in recent years, directing two of the past three films and executive producing all three along with the corresponding Netflix animated shows.

That changes with next month’s “Jurassic World Rebirth,” which he’s not involved in. Instead, Trevorrow has moved on to other projects, including co-writing and producing the just-released Amazon original movie “Deep Cover” starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed, Ian McShane, Sean Bean and Paddy Considine.

Sitting down with THR to promote that project, he touched upon another project he was once linked to – the remake of “Flight of the Navigator”. Back in 2012, came the news that Trevorrow was set to direct a new take on the 1986 sci-fi live action family feature.

The project never happened with no real news until nine years later in 2021 when Bryce Dallas Howard was attached to direct a reimagining. No new updates since then, but Trevorrow says he and Howard spoke regularly about the project while making “Deep Cover” and how it has been a challenge to ‘crack’ it:

“All the time. I saw every draft that she’s been working on as she’s been looking to crack it. If you were born at a certain moment, it’s one of those ones that you have a fascination with. As a kid, the idea that all of your friends and family have aged while you’re still a kid, it’s just the absolute worst nightmare. So, yes, we’ve definitely connected on it… It’s pretty rare for directors to have other directors that they can communicate with and maybe even complain to sometimes, so she’s been wonderful in that way.”

The original film followed a twelve-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spacecraft in 1978 and reappears eight years later, still the same age and with no memory of what happened.

NASA scientists discover a connection between the boy and a downed spacecraft and try to exploit the boy, who ultimately escapes with the ship and attempts to reunite with his family.

Trevorrow’s 1980s-set Area 51 conspiracy thriller is his next project which will be a “much more grounded and reality-based” approach to UFOs than many people likely expect. Much like a newspaper-style film (ala “Spotlight,” “All the President’s Men”), it’s going to be an on-the-ground approach to a journalist sourcing facts to figure out what is true.

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