![]() Simien negotiated to direct the film by April 2021, and was officially confirmed three months later. After years in development hell, Disney officially announced Haunted Mansion in August 2020, with Dippold signed on to write a new screenplay. ![]() Del Toro was no longer attached as the project's director in July 2013. Plans for the reboot adaptation based on the Haunted Mansion began in July 2010, when Guillermo del Toro, who intended to write and produce, stated the project would take place in a heightened reality rather than in a real-world setting. Dillon) enlist the aid of a team (Stanfield, Haddish, Wilson, and DeVito) to help exorcise the ghosts around them. In the film, Gabbie (Dawson) and Travis (Chase W. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback, it is the second theatrical film adaptation of Walt Disney's theme park attraction The Haunted Mansion, following the 2003 film of the same name. It stars LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Dan Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jared Leto. That said, if you were to cast someone like the awesome Gina Carano in such a role, the result would have been a little less real and a little more In The Blood, which would shift much more into straight action and Bell is at least given some development over the duration, even if Wilson is leading the way.Haunted Mansion is a 2023 American supernatural horror comedy film directed by Justin Simien from a screenplay by Katie Dippold. Thankfully Lake Bell’s character is only given over to the odd moment of believable, yet utterly frustrating incompetence in the face of death, which is one area in which the film could have benefited from a little tweak. Speaking of which, I should point out that in a rare moment at a press screening I witnessed multiple shrieks and even some face hiding during some of the more intense scenes, which gives you an idea of how well the film holds its tension. Making up Wilson’s family are his wife and two daughters, played by Lake Bell, Sterling Jerins and Claire Geare, who all put in solid performances and ramp up the requisite level of fear that help to keep events at seat edge. There’s also the clever notion that his clearly defined American features and blonde hair cause him to stick out like a sore thumb, when all he and his family need to do is stay hidden and anonymous, as there’s no mistaking Owen Wilson in a crowd. ![]() What works so well about his turn in No Escape is the unpredictability of watching how far his naturally laid back persona can be stretched and twisted when he’s backed into a corner and it certainly marks his most brutal transformation yet. With Wilson there’s already been talk of his turn in No Escape marking a departure into action yet, for me anyway, he was an actor I first got to know through his action roles – Armageddon, Behind Enemy Lines, I Spy and the Shanghai movies – so it seems like more of a welcome return to the genre and one that he’s proved to have an already successful track record in. Likewise with Birdman it was hailed as the return of Michael Keaton even though he’d appeared twice already that year on the big screen, albeit in supporting roles, but hasn’t stopped working since the seventies. ![]() There seems to be a constant need for actors to be pigeon-holed and cut into easily digestible chunks, which always tend to irk me – when Liam Neeson did Taken it seemed that the media chose to ignore the fact he’d had a constant stream of action on his resume since the start of his career. Of course, any film with pursuit at its heart requires an investment in the central characters, and it’s for this reason that Owen Wilson’s casting, while likely to prove divisive for some, is a masterstroke.
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