Originally Posted By Rebekah This topic is for discussion of the 7/10/2002 news item <b><a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-film.html?2002-07/09/13.30.film" target="_blank">SciFi: Mansion Film Takes A Ride</a></b> The July 9th <I>Sci Fi Wire</I> offers comments from Haunted Mansion film director Rob Minkoff who feels the film will offer people a new perspective on the classic attraction.
Originally Posted By GHOSTHOST1313 so let me get right disney`s making a movie about this ride starring eddie murphy. and now they want to change our beloved ride to fit the movie? I can`t believe it. did they change the mona lisa? no! have they fixed the leaning tower of piza? No! have they edited gone with the wind? No! and why do you ask. because they were done right the first time. I can`t imagine what brilliant mind could concieve of such a scatterbrained idea like this.It is indeed rough times that we are living nowadays, sad and rough indeed.please leave the haunted mansion alone if you want to make a stupid movie about it that`s fine but please,please,please leave the ride out of it, it`s fine the way it is!
Originally Posted By Great Stone Dragon Ummmmm... 1) why was this interview on a sci-fi website? 2) let me get this straight, they aren't going to change the ride, but the movie will change people's perceptions about some of the stuff in the ride, but the movie won't have much similarity to the ride (which it's "based" on)??? 3) Eddie Murphy? I know this isn't "new" news but I still don't get it. Please help.
Originally Posted By brotherdave I KNEW IT!!! They want to change the ride to match the film!!! Don't they realize the uproar that will create? (Or maybe they do!) All I can say to the powers that be, DON'T DO IT!!! A temporary overlay (HM Holiday) is one thing, but a complete makeover??? HELP!!! Remember the last time Imagineers tinkered with a classic, namely the original Journey Into Imagination attraction at EPCOT? It scares me to think what they might do with our beloved Mansion!!! I can see it now, the soothing, spooky voice of Paul Frees as the Ghost Host would be replaced with wise cracking puns from Eddie Murphy!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! This is a Nightmare I DO NOT want to see invade the Haunted Mansions!!!
Originally Posted By goldenstate5 Eddie Murphy in the strech room? Gee, now the Haunted Mansion will be truely scary... In all guidebooks: Frightning Potential: People of all ages will be frightened of the immediate voicings of Eddie Murphy. BEWARE: Your children will have HEART ATTACKS!!...
Originally Posted By GHOSTHOST1313 can we please sort this out is the ride gonna change, if so all of us should get our picket signs ready and picket the imaginering buiding or the studio in burbank we can`t stand still for this, i bet they plan to add rush and depp to the pirates ride now. but let`s find out what`s happening first, then storm the company with letters then picketing!!!
Originally Posted By GHOSTHOST1313 oh yes i forgot one thing if it`s true about the changes we should keelhall Rob Minkoff just to be on the safe side.LOL
Originally Posted By arstogas You know, I actually think that if ANYONE can keep this movie from being garbage, it's Rob Minkoff. Co-director of The Lion King, some great shorts before that, and also director of Stuart Little and the sequel. I'm hopeful, anyway, that he is appreciative of Disney's legacy and will protect it, regardless of what some brainless studio execs might try to do.
Originally Posted By GHOSTHOST1313 I sure hope your right arstogas, and you make a good point. I guess we`ll have to wait and see.he did do a good job on stuart little,in fact a pretty darn good job!
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Hmmm... talk of a major rehab of the Mansion for the 50th and a HM movie on the way... synergy, anyone?
Originally Posted By AladdinAZ "I can see it now, the soothing, spooky voice of Paul Frees as the Ghost Host would be replaced with wise cracking puns from Eddie Murphy!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Well, if PeeWee Herman can navigate us through the Star Wars Universe for a few years . . . . "heh heh, I meant to do that, It was a shortcut, heh heh!" Better look out, soon Roseanne will be singing us through "It's a Small World" You can already see the new promotion for the Halloween Season: "Just when you thought it was safe to ride (Jaws music in the background) . . . muahahahahahah!!!!"
