#New Rocketeer Movie Coming To Disney, David Oyelowo To Wear The Jetpack

We revisited “The Rocketeer” just last year, with /Film’s Josh Spiegel unearthing it from the Disney Vault and calling it an “early superhero masterpiece.” This summer, Billy Campbell sat down for an interview with us as the movie turned 30. “The Rocketeer” also stars Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, and Terry O’Quinn as Howard Hughes. Dalton plays the villain and was only two years from his final outing as James Bond in “License to Kill.”

“The Rocketeer” is one of those films that has maintained a loyal cult following over the years. It was the sophomore feature of Joe Johnston; he was coming off his directorial debut, “Honey I Shrunk the Kids,” when he made it. Two decades later, Johnston would helm “Captain America: The First Avenger,” and you can definitely see the overlap between that film and “The Rocketeer,” not only in terms of its period setting but also its overall tone as a nostalgic World War II adventure.

We’ll be following the development of this story and will let you know more details about “The Return of the Rocketeer” as soon as they become available.