A new live-action Haunted Mansion movie is in the works at Disney. It will be based on the 51-year-old Disneyland theme park ride of the same name, with Ghostbusters writer Katie Dippold attached.

“The Haunted Mansion” opened at Disneyland in 1969 and was an immediate success, spawning similar rides at Walt Disney World in Florida and Tokyo Disneyland. Patrons are placed in a “Doom Buggy” riding through a haunted house with dozens of supernatural scares.

This is not the first time a film was made based on the popular attraction. Disney used the ride as inspiration for its 2003 horror comedy The Haunted Mansion starring Eddie Murphy who portrayed a workaholic realtor who buys a mansion that turns out to be haunted. The movie was directed by Rob Minkoff.



The studio has another film based on the Disneyland ride, Jungle Cruise, with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt starring. The film is due out on July 29, 2021 — a year after its original release date, which was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.