Ride Tower of Terror Getting Adapted for the Screen
Steve Barton
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Taking a page from popular theme park rides such as Pirates of the Caribbean and The Coney Island White Fish (Brooklyn residents only), Deadline is reporting that Big Fish scribe John August has written a treatment based around the Tower of Terror attraction, and Disney is now looking to hire a screenwriter to bring to life one of the most popular rides in its theme park’s history.
Jim Whitaker is producing this, after he and August hatched an idea based on the theme park attraction and the studio sparked to their vision.
The theme park ride combines footage and narration by what sounds like the late Rod Serling doing a “Twilight Zone” episode, with a jaw-dropping elevator car that falls precipitously and climbs back up. That classic anthology show isn’t part of this; indeed, it’s being developed as a freestanding movie at Warner Bros, produced by Appian Way with Joseph Kosinski. This will be a haunted house picture, and having a family brand tied to it might help it fare better than an original creation like Crimson Peak.
Tower of Terror was reportedly the very first theme park ride turned into a movie, but it was done for television in 1997 and starred Steve Guttenberg and Kirsten Dunst.
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