Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis.

Is this movie actually coming out or is it your imagination?

The new Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie is due out on July 28.

Has the company learned its lesson from this prior misstep?

Disney has two distinct approaches to its big-budget, tentpole films.

That’s why The Jungle Book adaptation was fantastic.

And it’s also why The Lion King adaptation was so bad.

Here is everything we know so far about Disney’s Haunted Mansion (2023).

When’s the release date?

Haunted Mansion is set to open in theaters on July 28, 2023.

The release date has changed two prior times.

The main character is Gabbie, played by Rosario Dawson.

The ghosts include Madame Leota (Jamie Lee Curtis) and the Hatbox Ghost (Jared Leto).

Other notable actors include Dan Levy, Hasan Minhaj, and Winona Ryder.

Who is the director?

The writer is Katie Dippold, who wrote comedy for Mad TV and Parks and Recreation.

She and Paul Feig co-wrote the screenplay for the all-female Ghostbusters reboot in 2016.

Is there a trailer for the movie?

Take a look at it below.

A theme park classic

Here’s a little history lesson.

It went through many iterations–first as a walkthrough exhibit and a museum of the weird.

Some Imagineers wanted it to be scary.

Other Imagineers wanted it to be fun.

And because of their inability to compromise, the Haunted Mansion ended up being a bit of both.

The stretching room is actually a cleverly-designed elevator that lowers you to the actual ride.

It’s filled to the brim with practical effects and optical illusions, many dating back to the 1800s.

Didn’t we do this already?

The movie was intended as a family-friendly horror comedy, but it flopped at the box office.

The film is set in New Orleans; the original ride is in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square.

There are visual callbacks to the ride’s Changing Portraits Hallway and Stretching Room.

There’s a ghostly organ player, who originated from the ride’s ballroom scene.

The Imagineers restored him to the attraction in 2015.

Rating

The new Haunted Mansion is rated PG-13.

The 2003 version was rated PG.

Developmental hell

For years, there was a different Haunted Mansion movie in development.

But the project never got off the ground, even after Ryan Gosling was rumored to play the lead.

And in 2019, del Toro conceded that the project was likely dead.

This new movie, made without del Toro’s creative involvement, probably seals the deal.

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