They escape the facility and Max tells David his mission is to travel the galaxy collecting biological specimens for analysis on Phaelon before returning them to their homes. Faraday decides to keep David to finish his investigation, breaking his 48-hour promise.įollowing a telepathic communication from the spaceship, David secretly boards it and meets its robotic commander, "Trimaxion Drone Ship" ("Max"), who calls David the "Navigator". Having traveled faster than light, he has experienced time dilation, explaining how eight years have passed on Earth, but not for him. Faraday discovers David's mind is full of alien technical manuals and star charts far exceeding NASA's research, and that he was taken to the planet Phaelon, 560 light years away, in just 2.2 hours.
Louis Faraday, who has been studying the spaceship, persuades David to come to a NASA research facility for just 48 hours, promising him they can help learn what happened to him. Hospital tests on David's brainwaves reveal images of the spaceship. Meanwhile, an alien spaceship crashes through power lines and is captured by NASA. David is reunited with his aged parents and the now 16-year-old Jeff. He has not aged, and his appearance exactly matches his missing child poster. When he comes to, eight years have passed and it is now 1986. On July 4, 1978, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 12-year-old David Freeman walks through the woods to pick up his 8-year-old brother, Jeff, from a friend's house when he falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious. In September 2017, Walt Disney Pictures announced that a reboot of Flight of the Navigator was in the works. The film is also known to be one of the first Hollywood productions to feature an entirely electronic music film score, composed using a Synclavier, one of the first digital multi-track recorders and samplers.įlight of the Navigator has since become a cult classic, and has a large cult following among science fiction and Disney fans.
įlight of the Navigator is notable for being one of the first Hollywood films to use extensive CGI effects, specifically, it was the first use of image-based lighting, and an early use of morphing in a motion picture. It was partially shot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and in Norway, being a co-production with Norwegian company Viking Film.
The film's producers initially sent the project to Walt Disney Pictures in 1984, but the studio was unable to approve it and it was sent to Producers Sales Organization, which made a deal with Disney to distribute it in the United States. It features an early film appearance by Sarah Jessica Parker as Carolyn McAdams, a key character who befriends David in a time of need. It stars Joey Cramer as David Freeman, a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spaceship and transported from 1978 to 1986. Flight of the Navigator is a 1986 American science fiction adventure film directed by Randal Kleiser and written by Mark H.
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