The Black Hole
Gary Nelson, USA 1979
A 1970’s sci-fi movie about a spaceship traveling to the edge of a black hole, including a mysterious scientist, a faceless army and a whole lot of galactic drama. Could it get any better?
Some time in the future, the spaceship USS Palomino is traveling back to Earth after a mission when it stumbles across another spaceship, the USS Cygnus. This ship has been missing for a long time, and when a scientist on board learns that it’s the same ship her father once served as a crewmember on, the Palomino crew decides to board the Cygnus and discovers something beyond their wildest imaginations.
Gary Nelson’s The Black Hole is a Walt Disney production that never got to reach wide audiences, even though at the time it was the most expensive picture the studio ever produced. Even though the CGI and overall visual style of the film were quite groundbreaking for its time, the storyline is so ridiculous that it’s good, leaving critics feeling divided. Let’s turn this film into the cult classic it never became.
-Lucas
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