Audiences may have taken a step back in 1979 when Disney released its first PG-rated film, The Black Hole. A science fiction thriller bordering on horror. Produced under the Walt Disney Productions label, it was far from a box office success. This was an era in which Disney box office receipts were lacking. Studio execs at the time saw the shift in audience demographics and there was less of a demand for the fairy tales and fantastical happy endings Disney traditionally offered.Attempting to capitalize on the hype of George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Disney set out to tell an equally epic galactic saga. However, it missed the mark. And instead of producing a traditional good vs. evil borderline space western — The Black Hole is a nebulous, nuanced, and sometimes confusing piece of dark sci-fi. It feels much more reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey than Lucas’ world of Jedi knights and planetary princesses. Still, despite its creative shortcomings, the movie was an ambitious leap and led to Disney opening itself up to a wider scope in its filmmaking.Despite the adorable-looking robot V.I.N.C.E.N.T. (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized), voiced by Roddy McDowall, the overall tone of The Black Hole is fairly stark. The plot follows the U.S.S. Palomino spacecraft in the year 2130 on an exploratory mission into deep space. The crew of the Palomino come upon a black hole and a ship, the Cygnus, that the peoples of Earth had considered lost. All that seems to remain of the crew is the scientist Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell). Reinhardt appears to be operating the entire defunct vessel on a staff of robots — including one large ominous red model named Maximilian. It’s not long before the crew of the Palomino start to suspect there’s something sinister at play onboard the Cygnus.RELATED: What Kind of Animal Is Goofy? (No, Seriously)
Audiences may have taken a step back in 1979 when Disney released its first PG-rated film, The Black Hole. A science fiction thriller bordering on horror. Produced under the Walt Disney Productions label, it was far from a box office success. This was an era in which Disney box office receipts were lacking. Studio execs at the time saw the shift in audience demographics and there was less of a demand for the fairy tales and fantastical happy endings Disney traditionally offered.
Attempting to capitalize on the hype of George Lucas’ Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977), Disney set out to tell an equally epic galactic saga. However, it missed the mark. And instead of producing a traditional good vs. evil borderline space western — The Black Hole is a nebulous, nuanced, and sometimes confusing piece of dark sci-fi. It feels much more reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey than Lucas’ world of Jedi knights and planetary princesses. Still, despite its creative shortcomings, the movie was an ambitious leap and led to Disney opening itself up to a wider scope in its filmmaking.
Despite the adorable-looking robot V.I.N.C.E.N.T. (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized), voiced by Roddy McDowall, the overall tone of The Black Hole is fairly stark. The plot follows the U.S.S. Palomino spacecraft in the year 2130 on an exploratory mission into deep space. The crew of the Palomino come upon a black hole and a ship, the Cygnus, that the peoples of Earth had considered lost. All that seems to remain of the crew is the scientist Dr. Hans Reinhardt (Maximilian Schell). Reinhardt appears to be operating the entire defunct vessel on a staff of robots — including one large ominous red model named Maximilian. It’s not long before the crew of the Palomino start to suspect there’s something sinister at play onboard the Cygnus.
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