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unprincess wrote:he would make a great take on any of the planned live action versions of Disney films. There arent many films in the Disney canon left that arent already in production with directors attached... but imagine a live action Peter Pan or Black cauldron, Hunchback or Hercules with his aesthetic!

Guillermo del Toro wrote:Screenplays I have developed, fully written or co-written that have gone unproduced (so far): The Witches, Justice League Dark, Beauty and the Beast, At the Mountains of Madness, Fantastic Voyage, The Count of Montecristo, Mephisto's Bridge, Pacific Rim 2 (very different), Secret Project (Untitled), Superstitious, Nightmare Alley, Haunted Mansion, The Hulk pilot, The Buried Giant, The Coffin, Drood, List of 7 (Mark Frost) and a few others...Oh, and Wind in the Willows (which I loved). The thing is each script takes about a year, so more than a decade of work lost (in the case of Mountains, much more, since we scouted and designed etc.) To be clear these screenplays are written, done. Each of them took months or years of my life. Meetings, synopsis, beat sheets and were all written, features, 90-130 pages each. These are not "maybes" or "wish list" items. They are done.

Q: If Jungle Cruise is successful, will Disney continue to work on projects such as Haunted Mansion?

The DisInsider: Yes.

Q: How long from now do you expect the Haunted Mansion reboot to be released?

The DisInsider: 3 years from now.

Sotiris wrote:So this is going to be a comedy again? What's the point of doing that?

Clindor wrote:There’s not really a connection between the choice of the tone and the movie being comparably more/less or as diverse as the first one anyway.

Walt Disney Pictures’ Haunted Mansion, is based on Disney’s classic theme parks attraction and starring a star-studded ensemble cast that includes LaKeith Stanfield (Knives Out), Tiffany Haddish (Bad Trip), Owen Wilson (Loki), Danny DeVito (Jumanji: The Next Level), Rosario Dawson (Zombieland: Double Tap), and Chase Dillon (The Underground Railroad). The film was directed by Justin Simien (Bad Hair, Dear White People) and produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (Aladdin). Nick Reynolds (Easter Sunday) and Tom Peitzman (The Lion King) are the executive producers.

In this mysterious adventure, a doctor (Dawson) and her 9-year-old son (Dillon), looking to start a new life, move into a strangely affordable mansion in New Orleans, only to discover that the place is much more than they bargained for. Desperate for help, they contact a priest (Wilson), who, in turn, enlists the aid of a widowed scientist-turned failed-paranormal expert (Stanfield), a French Quarter psychic (Haddish) and a crotchety historian (DeVito).