{"id":7623,"date":"2010-07-26T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7623"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T12:03:51","slug":"guillermo-del-toro-to-remake-haunted-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7623","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo del Toro to Remake &#8220;Haunted Mansion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mansion-128x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mansion Artwork\" title=\"Mansion Artwork\" width=\"128\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Last Thursday at Comic-Con, Guillermo del Toro (<i>Hellboy<\/i>, <i>Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth<\/i>) <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20100723\/en_nm\/us_deltoro_interview_1\">announced<\/a> that he will co-write and produce&#8211;and may also direct&#8211;a movie based on Disney&#8217;s Haunted Mansion attraction.  He also took pains to emphasize that it will have no relationship to that hideous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0338094\/\">Eddie Murphy thing<\/a>.*  And thank gawd for that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s apparently going to be family-oriented but &#8220;scary.&#8221;  Walt Disney Studios also unveiled a new piece of artwork for the movie (seen above, with a larger version at the <a href=\"http:\/\/disneyparks.disney.go.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/haunted-mansion-inspires-new-movie-by-the-walt-disney-studios-and-guillermo-del-toro\/\">Disney blog<\/a>), which looks promising.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m assuming the story will be based on the whole &#8220;phantom bride&#8221; thing that&#8217;s hinted at in Disneyland&#8217;s version of the ride and fleshed out more fully in EuroDisney&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phantom_Manor\">Phantom Manor<\/a>.  Given del Toro&#8217;s fantastical imagery in his other movies, this could really be pretty cool.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*I&#8217;m told his exact quote was, &#8220;We are not returning Eddie Murphy&#8217;s calls.&#8221;  Hee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday at Comic-Con, Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth) announced that he will co-write and produce&#8211;and may also direct&#8211;a movie based on Disney&#8217;s Haunted Mansion attraction. He also took pains to emphasize that it will have no relationship to that hideous Eddie Murphy thing.* And thank gawd for that. It&#8217;s apparently going to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7623\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}