Dave McNary Film ReporterDisney is conjuring up a new “Haunted Mansion” live-action movie, based on its 51-year-old Disneyland theme park ride, with “Ghostbusters” writer Katie Dippold attached.Producers are Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich through their Rideback banner.
Lin has extensive producer experience with the “Sherlock Holmes,” “It” and “Lego” franchises. He and Eirich teamed on Disney’s live-action “Aladdin” movie last year.“The Haunted Mansion” opened at Disneyland in 1969 and was an immediate success, spawning similar rides at Walt Disney World in Florida and Tokyo Disneyland.
Patrons are placed in a “Doom Buggy” riding through a haunted house with dozens of supernatural scares.Disney used the ride as inspiration for its 2003 horror.
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