Guillermo del Toro to reboot The Haunted Mansion

[pli1018]

Posted: 7/22/10 at 5:58pm

I can't be the only one excited about this! Hopefully the twisted creative genius of del Toro will help erase that horrendous Eddie Murphy version out of my mind. The ride deserves a great adaptation.

http://www.boffo.com/2010/07/comiccon-disney-says-del-toro-to-direct-haunted-mansion-johnny-depp-makes-appearance.html

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 3:07am

I am feeling the same way. However as much as I have wanted to, I have never gotten around to seeing any of del Toro's work. None of it. lol.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 8:04am

Enough with the reboots!

[best12bars]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 8:18am

Maybe someone will reboot Inception.

And Avatar.

And Nine.

[BroadwayBenny]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 8:26am

Can parents start using this term when they have a second (or third etc.) child?

"Little Becky is not your baby sister, she's a reboot."

[Roscoe]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 9:25am

At last a project worthy of del Toro's alleged talents. After PAN'S LABYRINTH I won't bother with his crap anymore.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:27pm

I love the attraction at Disneyland but this comment makes me so sad about the state of the arts today: "The ride deserves a great adaptation."

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:35pm

Preach it, Namo! When will the willful dumbing down of one's own taste and intelligence end?

[pli1018]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:02pm

Yes, because the film adaptation is a trend that has only recently begun. The Wizard of Oz was a remake/reboot, Hitchcock remade his OWN film, The African Queen, Gone With the Wind and countless others were all adapted from a book- I don't see how anything has changed.

An "original" movie not based on any other form of art is currently the number one film in the country. What is "sad" about that? The masses flocking to see a movie they know next to nothing about doesn't seem that way at all.

So a theme-park attraction as opposed to a book, poem, play, musical-any of the art that has been adapted for years-is getting adapted into a film. How is this sort of adaptation any different? As a fan I'm sure you know how rich the storytelling of the ride is. The material is there. The ride developed out of a backstory which developed out of a painting. So at its base this film is REALLY adapted from a painting, what does THAT say about the state of arts? We've never seen any art based on a PAINTING before, that sort of thing would be a colossal failure...

Perhaps it's a different perspective, but I just don't see the nausea you feel over modern arts. Sure things have changed, but this adapting & remaking business has been around for ages.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:03pm

I'll tell ya when: When riots break out at the end of "Space Mountain in Real 3D" and somebody loses an eye.