David Oyelowo to produce Walt Disney’s Remake of the 1991 Adventure film “The Rocketeer”

David Oyelowo to produce Walt Disney’s Remake of the 1991 Adventure film “The Rocketeer”

David Oyelowo is producing and potentially starring in The Return Of The Rocketeer, a new Disney+ movie and a remake of the cult classic favourite, The Rocketeer.

The original movie, released in 1991, was directed by Joe Johnston and adapted from Dave Stevens’ graphic novel. According to Empireonline, It ”featured Billy Campbell as Cliff, a young pilot who discovers a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a flying masked hero. He has to go up against Nazi spies to save the love of his life.” The film made close to $47 million at the domestic box office and became a fan fave for the studio.

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David Oyelowo and his wife, Jessica Oyelowo are producing under their Yoruba Saxon banner. They recently signed a first-look deal with Disney to develop new movies through their company, and this would appear to be their first project under that agreement. The project, written by Ed Ricourt, will also be a possible starring project for the Selma actor.

The Return of the Rocketeer will have an all-new creative directive, with Ricourt’s story focusing on a retired Tuskegee airman who takes up the Rocketeer mantle.

Brigham Taylor is also producing alongside Yoruba Saxon. Blake Griffin, Ryan Kalil and Noah Weinstein at Mortal Media are executives producing. The sequel is being developed by the Disney live-action team.

Yoruba Saxon Productions was founded by David and Jessica Oyelowo and is focused on creating values-based content across all platforms and for all quadrants, with an aim to shift the culture and colour outside the lines. Previous and upcoming film and TV projects include Nightingale (HBO), Captive (Paramount), A United Kingdom (Fox Searchlight), Come Away (Relativity Media), Five Nights in Maine (FilmRise), The Water Man(RLJE Films/Netflix), Ferguson Rises (PBS), Solitary (Bron) and First Gen (Disney+).