Director Justin Simien’s Haunted Mansion movie hit theaters this past weekend, and it’s off to a bit of a slow start, but it will surely have steady numbers as families file in over the next few weeks, and a whole other audience when the movie hits Disney+. While the movie hasn’t gotten great critic reviews, it has been well-received by fans, and in case Disney gets the idea to expand the franchise, Simien has some ideas.
In a recent interview with ComicBook, the director said:
“Absolutely. My favorite thing about being a director is building the world around the story so that you feel like, ‘Okay, after the story ends and before the story begins, there’s still a world there.’ That’s my favorite part. And so there’s a lot of things that we set up in the movie and a lot of places that we just point to as being over there, but we don’t necessarily go all the way in that particular room or go all the way into that particular mansion. So I think that there is plenty, plenty more story left, plenty more mysteries to discover in the mansion itself. And shockingly, even more Easter eggs, if you can believe it.”
The Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland is chock full of great details that could be turned into a story, or at least a cool Easter Egg! Have you seen the movie yet? Would you like to see the Haunted Mansion lore continue in another film?
