Disney has set the official release dates for a handful of highly anticipated films, including its Haunted Mansion film starring LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, and Tiffany Haddish.
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Haunted Mansion is currently set to release in theaters on March 10, 2023, with Disney also setting the date for The Banshees of Inisherin, a Searchlight Pictures film that is set for a limited release on October 21, 2022.
For Haunted Mansion, its March 2023 release window positions itself well to succeed at the box office. According to a report from Deadline, no other major studio releases are set for that weekend at the moment, although Paramount’s Dungeons & Dragons film will be released a week prior to that.
Haunted Mansion will be directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People) from a screenplay written by Katie Dippold (Parks and Recreation). Further details about the new adaptation’s plot are still being kept under wraps, but Stanfield will reportedly play a widower who once believed in the supernatural but is now a rather lifeless tour guide in New Orleans’s French Quarter. Meanwhile, Haddish will portray a psychic hired to commune with the dead.
The titular theme park was first adapted into the 2003 film which starred Eddie Murphy as a workaholic realtor who along with his family gets trapped inside a mansion inhabited by ghosts.
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The new Haunted Mansion movie is being produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (Aladdin) of Rideback. Rideback’s Nick Reynolds will serve as executive producer.
The project comes after the recent successful launch of Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily. A sequel to the action-adventure film is currently in the works.
