Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=75794" target="_blank"><b>Latest: HeatVisionBlog: Jon Favreau Set to Direct 'Magic Kingdom' for Disney</b></a> <p><em>Iron Man</em> director Jon Favreau is set to direct Disney's <em>Magic Kingdom</em>, a movie that explores what happens when the Disneyland theme park attractions and characters come to life.</p>
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA This is so weird to me. It reads like something from The Onion. Yeesh!
Originally Posted By mawnck That shark must get awfully dizzy watching the movie industry jump over it all the time. So let's see ... attractions and characters come to life ... Hey, here's a plot idea. Hundreds of colorfully dressed children of the world form an angry mob and go on a murderous rampage against a spy ring of Disney characters that have infiltrated their ranks. Starring Selena Gomez as Winking Cleopatra.
Originally Posted By alexbook I guess this means there'll be no "Kingdom Keepers" movie. Or is this KK renamed?
Originally Posted By utahjosh This will either be a) The Greatest Movie of All Time or b) An embarrassment of epic proportions. That's it. Okay, it might be "just okay," but i'm betting on a or b.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper ^^^My money is on B. In the long history of bad ideas, this is up there with "New Coke".
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>what happens when the Disneyland theme park attractions and characters come to life<< Featuring an all new character: Omnibus Prime!™
Originally Posted By Manfried What if the AA figures had lives when the park closed. Could be interesting, in a "Two and a Half Men" sort of way.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Maybe it's being a horror movie fan, but seeing an animatronic Abe Lincoln lurching along through the park at night sounds really chilling.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Featuring an all new character: Omnibus Prime!™> chalk one up for Toony! <What if the AA figures had lives when the park closed. Could be interesting, in a "Two and a Half Men" sort of way.> Maybe. For about 5 minutes
Originally Posted By basil fan I dunno...everybody thought a movie about the Pirates attraction would stink...
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <I dunno...everybody thought a movie about the Pirates attraction would stink...> The first 'Pirates' was terrific. 2 and 3? Eh. Haunted Mansion and The Country Bears movies are both pretty bad. So it seems that skepticsm is warranted.
Originally Posted By leemac Isn't this basically Night At The Museum translated to Disneyland? Or Mannequin? Maybe we can have Starship do the theme song! Disney's slate in 2012 could look very odd: Pirates 5 Jungle Cruise Haunted Mansion Magic Kingdom I really hope that we see flop after flop after flop out the Studio from now on - in the hope that we can get rid of Mister Disney Channel Rich Ross and his High School Musical minions who don't seem to get that it is all about story, stupid. How about some originality?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan In development: Fastpass and Furious Sweeney Todd's Wild Ride Innoventions: Lethargy A Very Monorail Christmas
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 >Fastpass and Furious< Only if we get Vin Diesel non of this "The Rock" stuff. (yes I know these are fake)
Originally Posted By Anatole69 I was about to same the same as Leemac, this is basically Night at the Museum. That's probably why it got greenlit. My understand of the first Iron Man movie is that the plot was thin and the actors were coming up with a lot of it as they were shooting, so don't discount Jon's ability to make a thin idea work. Having said that, this doesn't excite me one iota. - Anatole
