The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Disney is working on another film inspired by The Haunted Mansion attraction with screenwriter Katie Dippold attached.
What’s Happening:
- Walt Disney Studios is once again adapting the classic theme park attraction, The Haunted Mansion, as a live-action feature film.
- The Hollywood Reporter exclusively broke the news that screenwriter Katie Dippold (The Heat, 2016’s Ghostbusters) is attached to write the script.
- The attraction previously inspired the 2003 comedy film The Haunted Mansion that starred Eddie Murphy as a real estate agent whose family got swept up in breaking a curse on the residence of 999 happy haunts.
- Disney has tried multiple times over the years to get another screen adaptation off the ground, including a version directed by Guillermo del Torro that was announced back in 2010.
- As recently as 2015, the project was still in development with Ryan Gossling in talks to be part of the film’s cast.
- Rideback is co-producing the film with Disney and most recently worked with them on the live-action Aladdin.