Disney brought the Haunted Mansion back to the big screen in 2023 and up next they’re developing a new movie adaptation of the Tower of Terror ride, which was originally announced back in 2021 with Scarlett Johansson attached to star. The actress reveals in a new interview that while the project has been a “hard […]
Disney brought the Haunted Mansion back to the big screen in 2023 and up next they’re developing a new movie adaptation of the Tower of Terror ride, which was originally announced back in 2021 with Scarlett Johansson attached to star. The actress reveals in a new interview that while the project has been a “hard nut to crack,” it’s finally starting to take shape.
Johansson tells Entertainment Weekly, “It’s a hard nut to crack. Harder than you think, because the ride itself, there’s some lore to it, but it’s… I don’t want to say thin, but it is, kind of!”
“That’s part of the mystery of the ride. It’s been a fun project to work on, because it’s a blue sky project,” Johansson elaborates. “It has also proved to be a hard nut to crack.
“But, we’ll crack the case of it. It’s taking shape!”
Last we heard, Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4) was writing the script.
Also known as The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, the attraction is a drop tower dark ride that was launched at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in July 1994, subsequently being added to Tokyo DisneySea, Walt Disney Studios Park, and for a time, Disney California Adventure. As explained by Wikipedia, the rides “place riders in a seemingly ordinary hotel elevator, and present the riders with a fictional backstory in which people have mysteriously disappeared from the elevator under the influence of some supernatural element many years previously.”
As you may recall, the Tower of Terror ride was turned into a made-for-television movie back in 1997, which starred Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst. It was actually Disney’s first foray into turning theme park attractions into feature films, which of course paved the way for subsequent movies including The Haunted Mansion and the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
