Justin Simien directed Haunted Mansion for Disney primarily based on the theme park’s attraction of the identical title. The filmmaker is now opening up about one other Disneyland attraction he want to adapt into a movie and it’s Michael Jackson’s Captain EO.
“Captain EO, let’s go,” Simien informed Screen Rant throughout Comic-Con. “Listen, I know it is out of commission, okay? I know that’s not technically a ride, but I am ready. I need some singing and I need some dancing and I need some jerry curl juice in outer space immediately.”
Captain EO was 3D science fiction brief movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola and it starred Jackson. George Lucas, Rusty Lemorande and Coppola wrote the script of the brief that additionally starred Angelika Huston and Dick Shawn.
The movie tells the story of Captain EO, performed by Jackson, who’s on a mission to ship a present to the Supreme Leader who lives in a rotting world of twisted metallic and steaming vents. The Supreme Leader captures Captain EO’s crew and sentences them to be become trash cans. Before Captain EO is distributed away to be tortured, he tells the Supreme Leader he sees the sweetness in her and unlocks it by breaking right into a music with “We Are Here to Change the World.”
Captain EO made its debut in 1986 and was screened at each U.S. theme parks up till 1998. The movie was an attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World with theme park visitors carrying 3D glasses to observe the movie and being immersed within the journey with lasers and smoke across the theater.
The movie returned to Disney parks in 2010, a yr after Jackson’s loss of life and was proven at Epcot for the ultimate time in December 2015.