GHOSTBUSTERS (2016) Writer Rebooting HAUNTED MANSION
Mike Sprague
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There has been talk for a long time now that Guillermo del Toro would be writing and producing a reboot of Disney’s The Haunted Mansion. But today we hear that Ghostbusters (2016) writer Katie Dippold is penning the live-action reboot.
For the record, Dippold has also been behind scripts for Parks and Recreation, The Heat, and Snatched. I can only assume this means this new version of Haunted Mansion will feature Melissa McCarthy. But we’ll see…
Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (Aladdin ) are producing the film which will (obviously) ignore everything about director Rob Minkoff’s 2003 version with Eddie Murphy.
All the same, that version told the tale of a workaholic real estate agent played by Murphy who is accused by his wife of neglecting his son and daughter, so he takes the family on a vacation. Along the way, they stop at a sinister mansion he’s been asked to sell, only to discover it’s – you guessed it – haunted.
Here’s the trailer.
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