The Disney film "Flight of the Navigator" is set to be remade with screenwriter Brad Copeland penning the new script. The Hollywood Reporter reports that  Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman.

The 1986 original told the story of a 12-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.

John Hyde, who exec produced the original, will oversee this film as well.