Disney’s Haunted Mansion – a film based on the dark ride attraction than can be found at Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, and Tokyo Disneyland – was once set to reach theatres on March 10th, but it ended up being pushed back to August, and just a couple weeks ago we learned that it had moved up to July 28th. While we wait to see if it’s going to stick with that July release date, Disney has unveiled a poster for the film, and you can check that out at the bottom of this article. Along with the poster comes the promise that a teaser trailer for Haunted Mansion will drop online tomorrow, so keep an eye out for that!
Haunted Mansion stars Rosario Dawson (Daredevil), Chase Dillon (The Harder They Fall), Owen Wilson (Loki), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip), LaKeith Stanfield (Get Out), Danny DeVito (It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween), Winona Ryder (Stranger Things), Jared Leto (Morbius), and Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek).
Directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People) from a script by Katie Dippold (Ghostbusters), Haunted Mansion has the following synopsis: 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).
Curtis and Leto play popular characters from the ride: Madame Leota, who is “a ghost of a psychic whose head is encased in her crystal ball”, and the Hatbox Ghost.
The Haunted Mansion ride has previously inspired a film of the same name that was released in 2003 and a Muppet version that was appropriately titled The Muppets Haunted Mansion.
Are you looking forward to Haunted Mansion? Let us know by leaving a comment below. I don’t have any connection to the inspiration for this movie, I have never ridden the ride and haven’t watched the previous movie or the Muppets one, so my interest in this Haunted Mansion will depend entirely on what’s shown in the trailer.
Here’s the poster:
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