news culture This famous Disneyland attraction will be entitled to a new theatrical adaptation, tremble the poor fools!
In most cases, Disney park attractions come from existing fantastic universes (Jules Verne at Disneyland Paris) or are adapted directly from the company’s productions. But sometimes it’s attraction that inspires cinema. That was the case with Pirates of the Caribbean, but also with another oh-so-famous attraction.
The Haunted Manor, an iconic attraction soon to be adapted for cinema
This attraction is Born in California in 1969, but if you’ve been to Disneyland Paris, you’ve seen it. High on its little hill with its Victorian style, its graveyard and its sinister atmosphere, Phatom Manor has welcomed millions of visitors
This is like that in 2003 a first adaptation entitled was born The haunted house and the 999 ghosts. We found there Eddie Murphy; at the peak of his career at the time, but the film is far from unanimous approval. Directed by Rob Minkoff, the feature film had missed his target failure to combine humor with horror, and convinced neither the public nor the critics. But he had managed to collect $182 million at the box office for a budget of 90 million
This first attempt, unsuccessful and obviously not profitable enough, remained a dead letter. But now this year A new adaptation will appear on our screens ! title The haunted housethis second try will once again be inspired by the famous attraction. So we find the building, the scary bride, the bluish corridors, the paintings or even the cobwebs and go back inside a mixture of humor and horror
Directed by Justin Simien and written by Katie Dippold and set to music by Kris Bowers, Le Manoir Haunté is performed Rosario DawsonTiffany HaddishLakeith Stanfield Owen WilsonJamie Lee Curtis or Danny DeVito next to it Winona Ryder and Jared Leto. Beautiful names at the service of a horror comedy whose pitch is relatively simplistic:
A mother and her nine-year-old son want to start a new life. They seize an opportunity they can’t pass up, an affordable mansion in New Orleans. You have no idea that the house is already inhabited by unexpected residents. When they find out the mansion is haunted, they hire a team of pseudo-experts to help them hunt down the various ghosts and spirits that haunt their home.
An ongoing project for more than 10 years!
If it only now reveals itself The project dates back to 2010 and has undergone many changes. Initialement, The Haunted Mansion was to be directed, written and produced by Guillermo del Toro. He planned an out-of-this-world story involving Hatbox, a skeletal creature with a top hat. In 2011, a member of the park design team joined the team as a creative consultant and In 2012 the “final” project was on the table.
Unfortunately, we found out a year later Guillermo del Toro was no longer the director, but retains the role of screenwriter and producer. The film was then not heard from for two years before it was talked about again. It was then discovered that the script had been DV DeVincentis entrustedbut it didn’t work, and this scenario remains mysterious.
Finally, in 2020, the story was previously placed in the hands of Katie Dippold Justin-Simon arrives in July 2020 as a director. Then things went faster and production started. The haunted house where will he succeed? The Haunted Manor and the 999 Ghosts failed ? Response in a few months in cinemas or on Disney+.
