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Owen Wilson to star in Disney’s latest version of ‘Haunted Mansion’

Owen Wilson will soon join the 999 happy haunts.

Owen Wilson has just recently added his name to the call list and will star in Disney’s revamp of Haunted Mansion.

Filming is set to begin in Atlanta, Georgia, next month for the new flick, which follows a family who moves into a creepy mansion and (surprise!) through a series of events, finds out that their new piece of real estate is, well, real scary.

 

You would think that the crypt doors creaking and the tombstones quaking would be really big hints that some kind of haunts would be materializing. But, after all, it’s Hollywood. It’s Disney. And if they “knew” about their already-inhabited habitat, I guess there’d be no storyline at all.

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Wilson joins a cast that includes LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish. Haunted Mansion will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, the dynamic duo who produced Disney’s 2019 reprisal of Aladdin, which was one of four of Disney’s films that saw more than $1 billion at the box office that year.

Scriptwriter Katie Dippold will also be at the helm, alongside diector Justin Simien.

Owen Wilson’s most recent contribution to the wonderful world of Disney films was his role of Mobius in Marvel’s Loki on Disney+.

 

Haunted Mansion is based on the Disney Parks attraction of the same name. It’s one of at least two titles based on a Disney Parks experience.

Disney’s Jungle Cruise, based loosely on the Disney Parks “Jungle Cruise” attraction stars Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and Emily Blunt and recently crossed the $100 million mark, so far grossing more than $106 million at the box office, fostering plans for a sequel to the wildly popular Disney film.

The first Haunted Mansion film debuted in 2003 and starred Eddie Murphy.

The reprisal of the film is set to be a theatrical release, but as recent events have proved, anything can happen in Hollywood. And with Disney!

About Becky Burkett

Becky's from the Lone Star State and has been writing since she was 10 and encountered her first Disney Park when she was 11. It was love at first Main Street Electrical Parade. Joy is blank lined journals, 0.7 mm pens, and all things Walt, Woody and Buzz, PIXAR, Imagineering, Sleeping Beauty (make it blue!), Disney Parks history and EPCOT. At Disney World, you'll find her croonin' with the birdies at the Enchanted Tiki Room or hangin' with Woody and the gang at Toy Story Land. If you can dream, you really can do it!