Here is your leader in the clubhouse for Most Understated Comment About the Latest Disney Theme Park-Turned-Movie: “When my son and I moved in here, it wasn’t as warm as we’d hoped.”
Here is the latest trailer for Disney’s Haunted Mansion. Watch it above, if you dare — but beware of grim grinning ghosts. Oh, by the way, “After midnight, the house comes alive.”
Directed by Justin Simien, the pic follows a woman (Rosario Dawson) and her son (Chase W. Dillon) who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. “It’s time to assemble the Dream Team,” we are told.
LaKeith Stanfield plays a paranormal tour guide, Tiffany Haddish is a psychic, Owen Wilson is a priest, and Danny DeVito is a historian. Daniel Levy also stars, along with Jamie Lee Curtis as the disembodied Madame Leota and Jared Leto as the Hatbox Ghost — and all get some screen time in the new trailer.
Fans of the longtime Disney ride — it opened in 1969 at Disneyland and two years later at Walt Disney World — will recognize the eerie hallways, the stretching room, the ghostly ballroom and the creepy house itself.
“You’re all in for a treat.”
Katie Dippold wrote the Haunted Mansion script, Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich are the producers, and Nick Reynolds and Tom Peitzman serve as executive producers. Disney earlier had planned to open the pic on March 10, but now it is set to hit theaters July 28.
