Guillermo talks about “Haunted Mansion”

Fresh out of SDCC, the guys over at /Film have reported that Guillermo Del Toro is working on another version of the popular Disney movie and attraction “The Haunted Mansion”.  Del Toro was asked about upcoming projects were he stated that he just started working on the project with and they have goals of the films being a live action 3D movie with a darker tone than the previous film.  Read on…

I am a huge fan of the attraction it’s self and I actually enjoyed the movie that was made 2003 starring Eddie Murphy. It was a film that was intended for younger audiences and I thought they did a great job stepping outside of the attraction to bring some sort of story to life for the mansion. Del Toro states that this film with mainly center around a tale for the popular “Hatbox Ghost” attraction which has always been labeled one of the scariest parts of the ride. I for one am excited for anything related to ghosts and spirits that Del Toro is working on after I thought he did a remarkable job with the haunting tale “The Orphanage” The film is also be written by Matthew Robbins (Mimic) who is also helping Del Toro on the “Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark” remake. The guys of at MTV also got statement from Del Toro: “The movie I see in my head of ‘Haunted Mansion’ is not what I believe anyone is imagining it would be. It’s not just a regular world with a haunted mansion plopped in the middle. I’m really thinking of a movie with a heightened reality, which is super designed, incredibly innovative, narratively and visually. When people think of ‘The Haunted Mansion,’ they think they know [what it’s about]. But I really want to push a lot of stuff that they have not seen ever.” … “We are taking sort of the core mythology [of the ride] that you can tap into and saying that there are many mansions around the world and they’re all part of a sort of web. The spider sitting at the center of the web is what the fans of ‘The Haunted Mansion’ would know by the nickname the Hatbox Ghost, which is a beautiful creature that was created but there’s a legend that it was discarded on the first day of the ride’s operation because it was too scary. I like that legend, but the reality is that the imagineers could not make the illusion work, so they took it out.”

It’s got me excited and I can’t to see how it all plays out.