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‘Haunted Mansion’ Movie Finally Happening With ‘Get Out’ Star LaKeith Stanfield as the Tour Guide!
At long last, Disney is welcoming guests back to the Haunted Mansion, a fresh take on one of the company’s signature rides.
In some pretty huge news, comedian Tiffany Haddish (Night School, Bad Trip) and Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield (Get Out, Death Note, Knives Out, Uncut Gems) are in negotiations to star in the film, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
While story details are basically invisible, it will follow a family that moves into the titular mansion.
What we did learn today is that both actors are playing some interesting roles in Haunted Mansion.
“Stanfield would play a widower who once believed in the supernatural but is now a rather lifeless tour guide in New Orleans’ French Quarter,” and “Haddish would play a psychic hired to commune with the dead.”
Could this be somewhat of an origin tale where Stanfield becomes the iconic “Ghost Host”, a disembodied voice that acts as the guests’ “private guide through the cadaverous realm of an eerie haunted estate”?
And then Haddish’s role sounds extremely in line with the even-more-iconic Madame Leota, a headless entity of a psychic who’s encased in a crystal ball. Child’s Play franchise star Jennifer Tilly played the role in the 2003 adaptation.
Justin Simien, who previously helmed Dear White People and Bad Hair, is making his big-budget studio debut directing the feature project from a script by Katie Dippold. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of Rideback will produce. Rideback’s Nick Reynolds is exec producing.
The project is set to shoot in Louisiana this fall and not connected to the 2003 film that starred Eddie Murphy.
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’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
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