Director Justin Simien is difficult at work on the post-production course of for Haunted Mansion, Disney’s newest stab at bringing the traditional theme park to screens. And he arrived on the firm’s D23 occasion with footage and information to share, together with the truth that Winona Ryder and Schitt’s Creek‘s Dan Levy’s cameo within the film.

Rosario Dawson, LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish are starring within the new movie, which follows a household (led by Dawson’s single mom) that strikes into the titular mansion. Stanfield can be a widower who as soon as believed within the supernatural however is now a fairly lifeless tour information in New Orleans’s French Quarter. Haddish would play a psychic employed to commune with the lifeless.

“I associated to it. I felt like I knew I may make it. I used to be a fanboy, so I understood the experience,” Simien, a former Disneyland worker himself stated on stage at D23. “I had to ensure all the main points and Easter Eggs had been there.”

And certainly, the footage proven had loads of characters and references for many who love the experience. Jared Leto is enjoying the enduring Hatbox Ghost, whereas no much less a horror icon than Jamie Lee Curtis is Madame Leota, AKA the floating head within the crystal ball. Additionally within the forged? Owen Wilson as a sarcastic priest, whereas Danny DeVito is a neighborhood professor.

Haunted Mansion can be in cinemas subsequent yr.