Disney’s new dwell motion Haunted Mansion film has been bumping across the launch calendar for some time now, most just lately scheduled to hang-out theaters on August 11, 2023.
However that date has been modified, Bloody Disgusting has discovered this afternoon. The favored Disney attraction will now be heading again to film theaters on July 28, 2023.
Justin Simien (Expensive White Individuals, Dangerous Hair) is directing the brand new dwell motion adaptation of the favored, long-running Disney theme park attraction that’s house to 999 haunts.
LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, and Danny DeVito star, with Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota and Jared Leto because the Hatbox Ghost.
Winona Ryder, Dan Levy, and Hasan Minhaj will even seem within the new film.
“On this mysterious journey, a physician (Dawson) and her 9-year-old son (Chase Dillon), seeking to begin a brand new life, transfer right into a unusually reasonably priced mansion in New Orleans, solely to find that the place is rather more than they bargained for. Determined for assist, they contact a priest (Wilson), who, in flip, enlists assistance from a widowed scientist-turned failed-paranormal skilled (Stanfield), a French Quarter psychic (Haddish) and a crotchety historian (DeVito).”
The darkish experience attraction, which launched in 1969 and remains to be going robust in the present day at Disney parks, “sees theme park friends go inside a spooky and creepy manor that has a wide selection of supernatural frights. It additionally includes a graveyard’s price of characters.” The most well-liked characters embrace Hatbox Ghost, Madame Leota, The Phantom and the Hitchhiking Ghosts.
Rob Minkoff directed the function movie The Haunted Mansion again in 2003, the primary large display screen adaptation of the experience. Eddie Murphy starred within the movie. Extra just lately, Guillermo del Toro was connected to adapt the experience for a model new film. Alas, it by no means got here to life.
