More Disney rides coming to the big & small screens

[ECG]

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Disney is going to bring two of their popular coaster rides to cinemas & TV.
A movie with the working title of "The Hill" will be based off Disneyland's iconic Matterhorn Bobsleds coaster with Tron Legacy's Justin Springer producing the project.
The idea behind The Hill is to do a thrilling, fast-paced movie centering on five young adventure seekers who, for mysterious reasons, are called to the top of the mountain and encounter a Yeti on the journey down.

Source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/disney-prepping-adventure-movie-based-206982

Disney & their ABC television network are also working on bringing the Big Thunder Mountain coaster rides to life on the small screen. The TV drama will be written by Ice Age: Continental Drift's Jason Fuchs and Fast & Furious' Chris Morgan will supervise and executive produce.
The ride has a variety of back stories depending on which park you visit, but they all revolve around a town at the base of a mountain where settlers struck it rich, only to anger the mountain which would wreck havoc upon the townsfolk.
It's unknown which direction the series will go, but the network could go the supernatural route & recreate their popular "Lost" series with a western twist. The writers will likely use several of the ride's references as was done with the highly successful "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, rather than making the series about the ride itself.

Source http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/disney-big-thunder-mountain-tv-abc-389824

 

[peep]

I'd like to see them use the Paris story more, they can then involve Phantom Manor into the mix which would give the show an even bigger canvas of awesome. But they won't and it'll be awful because of who's involved.

 

[Gavin]

I'll try and be positive here.

Sounds s**t.

 

[Hyde]

I know there have also been talks/screen plays drawn up for other Disney attractions for: the Enchanted Tiki Room, a rebooted Haunted Mansion, Jungle Cruise, Tomorrowland, and Magic Kingdom.

To date there have been 5 Disney-ride based movies:

Pirates of the Caribbean (and its sequels) - 2003
The Haunted Mansion - 2003
The Country Bear - 2002
Mission to Mars - 2000
Tower of Terror (made-for-TV, remember Wonderful World of Disney!) - 1997

I know the rebooted Haunted Mansion movie is in its final draft, and so far has seemed to have a green light.

 

[nadroJ]

The Haunted Mansion move was SO **** BAD. It made me want to cry. I'd love to see them take another pop at Tower of Terror though.

 

[marc]

Re: More Disney rides coming to the big & small screens

I would think both films will be based on the California stories as they are better.

Americans we spoke to out there really don't give a **** about Paris so I don't think that story will appeal.

Tbh though I don't really see the point in the films, they will just be adventure films anyway.

Yes I agree a new Tower of Terror film would be great

 

[peep]

I know the rebooted Haunted Mansion movie is in its final draft, and so far has seemed to have a green light.

As far as I'm aware this probably won't happen, or it will but without Del Toro who was the one that announced it a year or two ago. He just agrees to too many projects at the same time, he was originally the director for the first Hobbit film and then he realised how much he'd signed on to direct and just took a back step and decided to just be a producer instead. His latest film is taking him something like 2 years to make because it's going to be epic - for his sake, I really hope it is. The way he talked about this new film at the conference makes me want no-one else to touch it, he was going to do it properly.


^Pfft, they clearly know nothing then The story for Thunder Mesa is generally the same as the others but in Paris there is more story interlinking everything else in the area, the graveyard makes so much more sense because of this.

 

[marc]

Re: More Disney rides coming to the big & small screens

Yeah but the mansion will be a different film so they would not cover that, unless they linked the films but they won't.

As long as they don't do a rubbish western I don't mind, won't bother seeing either of them anyway.

Tbh I don't even know the story in Paris, it's not explained unless you read about it and I've never got round to it. I think it's something to do with miners etc.

 

[ECG]

"Big Thunder Mountain" is going to be a TV series, not a movie. From what I understand they will be using storylines from all of the BTMR coasters (including Paris) in the series, not just one.

 

[marc]

Re: More Disney rides coming to the big & small screens

Ah oh that will be good then