After the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, it’s no secret that Disney is mining their various attractions for more good movie ideas. You could roll your eyes and say “Lame!”, but we’re getting Guillermo Del Toro’s The Haunted Mansion out of this. (Maybe. He has such a busy plate.)
Disney isn’t looking too far out of one square of park, though. The ride next door to New Orleans Square is getting the movie treatment — The Jungle Cruise.
Written by Roger S.H. Schulman, it has already attracted Tom Hanks and Tim Allen to star. If you can’t get Johnny Depp, Disney’s most popular bromantic duo is a nice replacement.
All story details are being kept under wraps. All I can say is that the Jungle Cruise (especially after its post-African Queen renovation) is one of my favorite rides, and certainly has the right atmosphere for a movie. But given that Adventureland draws heavily on our cinema created ideas of foreign locales (shades of John Huston and Johnny Weissmueller are everywhere) , it feels incredibly weak to give it that kind of applause. But hey, if the worst we get is a comedy that rips off The African Queen (but with dudes), that wouldn’t be so bad, would it? Maybe you shouldn’t answer that.
I wonder what the next ride optioned will be. Matterhorn, starring Gerard Butler, Jeremy Irons, and Josh Gates? Big Thunder Mountain, starring Bradley Cooper and Terrence Howard? Fingers crossed.
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I’m down for Matterhorn staring Vinny Chase.
I enjoy your writing, you are one of the better curent CHUDers..But it is sometime hard to tell when people are bing snarky in sarastic in the written word…When you say Del Toro is so busy, you mean he isn’t busy? B/C he isnt getting to do his Hobbit or his Frankenstein? Or he is so busy because he is always working on things, like the Hobbit or Frankenstien, that never get made? Or he is so busy because or C’tulu? Or….?
Space Mountain, starring Clint Howard and Robert Z’Dar?
Oh, no snark intended there. His films may drag on in pre-production but Del Toro is *always* working on something. I think that’s why so few of them see completion — he’s always off on a new idea. He’s busy!
That’s my theory. I don’t know him personally like a lot of the online dudes, but he seems to just be constantly buzzing with a new idea.
I try to avoid snark as a rule, just because it’s so easy. I’m usually goofy-serious in tone! If I cut someone down in a piece, I try to be *really* clear about it. 🙂
Ticket bought!
Concession Stand, starring…
Elizabeth, how old are you? haha. I ask because of the “especially after its post-African Queen renovation.” How old would you have been to see the pre-African Queen renovation because that movie came out kind of a while ago. : )
They redid it to look like The African Queen in the late 1990s to match the 1930s look of the Indiana Jones ride. 😛
The first time I went to Disneyland was like 1989 or something. The boats and the queuing area were pretty unremarkable looking.
Pre-African Queen renovation:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhc6o8BlZW1qfdmplo1_500.jpg
Post:
http://lostworld.pair.com/disneyland/adventureland/adventureland_images/nov01_jungle_cruise1-mid.jpg
Unfortunately, it is a rather obscure reference if you don’t remember a Disneyland that was pre-Indiana Jones ride and 1930s Adventureland makeover.
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