Disney’s Haunted Mansion film has added Oscar nominee Owen Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Loki, The French Dispatch) to its cast, joining the previously announced Tiffany Haddish and LaKeith Stanfield, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie will be helmed by Justin Simien (Dear White People, Bad Hair), with production expected to begin shooting in Louisiana in October.
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Haunted Mansion will follow a family that moves into the titular mansion. Stanfield will reportedly play a widower who once believed in the supernatural but is now a rather lifeless tour guide in New Orleans’s French Quarter. Haddish will portray a psychic hired to commune with the dead.
Simien will direct from a screenplay written by Katie Dippold (The Heat, Ghostbusters, Parks and Recreation). The project follows in the footsteps of the recently released Jungle Cruise as being the next Disney theme park ride to be adapted into a film. The new film is not connected to the 2003 feature starring Eddie Murphy and directed by Rob Minkoff.
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Haunted Mansion is being produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (Aladdin) of Rideback. Rideback’s Nick Reynolds will serve as executive producer.