Disney+ is getting into the Halloween movie business. The streamer has set rising Irish filmmaker Peter Foott to helm Spooked, a supernatural comedy being produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback. Details are being kept in the pumpkin head but it is known that the storyline involves a Halloween night gone awry as trick or treaters are transformed into whatever costume they are wearing. Tyler Burton Smith wrote the initial script for the project that has now landed at Disney+ and will now be rewritten by Foott. Mark Bausch is executive producing.
I read the title and thought this might be a new WDAS project set in a haunted house or something, which would be cool and a nice change of pace for the studio. But this sounds like a fine DCOM.
It reminds me a little of the Goosebumps story "The Haunted Mask." Didn't this also happen in one of the Halloweentown movies?
I think it sounds like a fun concept for a series, calling back to those shows and specials that networks used to air around October. Could be something of an "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" for the current generation, hopefully with better acting and production values.
"There are two wolves and they are always fighting. One is darkness and despair. The other is light and hope. Which wolf wins? Whichever one you feed." - Casey Newton, Tomorrowland
