A new Rocketeer movie is coming to Disney Plus, with David Oyelowo potentially starring

The new Rocketeer, titled The Return Of The Rocketeer, will be produced by David and Jessica Oyelowo and written by Ed Ricourt (of Now You See Me and Jessica Jones), with David Oyelowo potentially starring in the film as well. The movie will take place some number of years after the original film (though Deadline doesn’t specifically mention if this takes place in the same universe as that movie) and will focus on a retired Tuskegee airman who decides to become the new Rocketeer. The original movie took place in 1938 and starred Billy Campbell as a stunt pilot who finds an experimental jetpack built by Howard Hughes and uses it to become a Nazi-fighting superhero, and this new movie (given the “retired” bit of the new hero’s backstory) will presumably take place after the war. That probably means the bad guys won’t be Nazis, which is both good and bad—because it’s nice when companies like Disney openly promote the punching of Nazis, but also, well, we’re all kind of sick of seeing fucking Nazis these days, right?

There’s no word on when we might see The Return Of The Rocketeer, but seeing as how we only know of one actor who might be in it, it must be a ways off. Either way, it’ll be on Disney+ whenever it comes out.