At Comic Con 2010, Guillermo del Toro the crowd at Disney’s Hall H panel by publicly announcing that he would be producing (and probably directing) a new big screen adaptation of the classic Disneyland attraction The Haunted Mansion. Its been almost four years since that announcement, and development is still on going. Del Toro offered a new update on the project during his Reddit AMA. Find out what the filmmaker said about the development of the Haunted Mansion movie adaptation including details of new screenwriters and Doug Jones Hat Box Ghost development art, after the jump. To del Toro during promotion for Pacific Rim last year, the filmmaker said that he wrote a screenplay with Mimic/Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark remake scribe Mathew Robbins but was looking for a screenwriter “that will bring a lot to it” and that he was “still pursuing a writer that is very hard to get”. Here is what Guillermo del Toro said during his on July 12th 20014. Some time has passed since we last heard anything from Guillermo Del Toro's live-action version of THE HAUNTED MANSION. Yes, there was already one wit. Sep 16, 2010 Video from Collider.com talking to Guillermo del Toro about his Haunted Mansion Reboot film. Currently planned for a Summer 2012 Release. Well, I spent 2 weeks ago, I went back to Disneyland with the executives with whom I am developing the screenplay. It’s a hard screenplay to crack. We’ve done it a few times. We are on our third or fourth draft, with 2 different writing teams, and I think the main thing is to try to combine everything that is great about the ride into the movie, and to make it a really intense but with a sense of fun – just like the ride. It’s a tough balance, and I would be happy to report if we had the screenplay. We always feel like we are very close, but not yet. We have developed 50-60 pieces of art, We’ve developed maquettes of the Hat Box Ghost, over the body and face of Doug Jones, but we have not succeeded yet in cracking the screenplay. I have to believe that Disney will make this movie as soon as we crack the screenplay, but until then we cannot tackle it. Very exciting, but until I hear the project is greenlight, I’m not going to get too excited. I hope it happens and I’d love to see one of the maquettes of Doug Jones (seen above from del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth) as the hat box ghost.
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