Wait, WHAT?

[cupcake_goth]

The breaking news from San Diego Comic Con: Disney announced that they're doing a reboot of Haunted Mansion, directed by Guillermo del Toro.

I ... I am optimistic, with a side of vague apprehension.

EDITED TO ADD FROM TWITTER:

RT @screenrant: Del Toro: Haunted Mansion will be live-action, 3D, and "the most haunted mansion on Earth." Will not be a comedy.

NOT A COMEDY. A creepy movie! Oh, thank goodness. I was always boggled by how Disney did so well with the Pirates of the Caribbean movie(s), and yet went straight to horribly bland and boring for the 2003 Haunted Mansion movie.

EDITED TO ADD AGAIN! From Entertainment Weekly http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/22/comic-con-guillermo-del-toro-announces-haunted-mansion-remake-for-disney/

"Unlike the 2003 movie version of Haunted Mansion, which starred Eddie Murphy, del Toro said the live-action film will not be a comedy (“We are not returning Eddie Murphy’s call,” del Toro said to applause), but instead will be "very scary — if you take the children, they will scream." Del Toro said he has visited the Haunted Mansion ride many times since he was a kid, describing it as “a place where I go when I need to think and to relax."

He will produce and co-write the film and may direct it as well.

Comments

[morthael.livejournal.com]

What, Eddie Murphy didn't do a good enough job in the first one?

[nebulasan.livejournal.com]

Let's hope that this one will be a lot better than the 2003 version.

[ms-tate.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm...this is promising.

[indilwen.livejournal.com]

Guillermo Del Toro! :) :) :)

I'm so glad they're making a creepy version of the movie...I have a lot higher hopes for it this time around.

[savannarama.livejournal.com]

OoooOOooo.

Can't wait to see what Del Toro does. Pan's Labyrinth was the Feel-Bad movie of the year. :}

[usagi-moon.livejournal.com]

Oh THANK Goodness. and I hope its WAY better than that last one.

[schwarze-krahe.livejournal.com]

But but...I want my " in the Mountains of Madness".

[darklingwoods.livejournal.com]

It should be a treat! I wonder how scary though, kids will of course want to see it!

[nightmrstallion.livejournal.com]

This is because Disney cannot make a good live-action film within their house to save their lives. They haven't been able to do so for 40 years or so. They have to hire talent outside their studios to make their Magic happen.

Heck, even their animation began to suffer until they snarfed Pixar like Gollum and the One Ring. The Precious...

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

I thought making the Haunted Mansion movie as a comedy was just... wrong. I'm glad they are going to rectify this error.

[seanb.livejournal.com]

There were explicit comments along the lines of "we chose him based on his work on Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone" and "this will be fun and scary but NOT, in any sense of the word, a comedy. We are NOT returning Eddie's calls."

trilliumgrl has dibs on the signed poster I showed on twitter. If she maintains her existing claim of "though shall not bring home any more wall art from Comic Con", I am assuming you have the right of the next claimant, as the most enthusiastic fan I know of the Haunted Mansion, other than Cory Doctorow.

[xochitl-luna.livejournal.com]

I hope it will not disappoint. I doubt it promises to be that scary, it is afterall Disney.