Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterTalk about meta. Walt Disney (the studio) is making a movie about Walt Disney (the person) and his journey to build Disneyland (the California theme park).David Gordon Green (“Halloween Kills”) is directing the still-untitled film, which will premiere on Disney Plus.
Evan Spiliotopoulos, whose credits include Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow White and the Huntsmen,” is writing the screenplay.Dubbed “The Happiest Place on Earth,” the Anaheim-based Disneyland opened during the summer of 1955.
Though theme parks were later built in Florida, Paris and other parts of the world, the California adventure is Disney’s only theme park constructed under the direct supervision of the man whose name.
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