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TOMORROWLAND: THE MOTION PICTURE?? Dwayne Johnson Rocketing Into Disney Space Movie!!
I am – Hercules!!
“Race To Witch Mountain” star Dwayne Johnson will be space-bound in a new actioner being scripted by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the team that penned the 2005 Martin Lawrence basketball comedy “Rebound.”
For some reason Variety thinks the untitled project might have something to do with Tomorrowland, the most futuristic district of Disneyland.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Disney lucked out with one series of films based on a theme ride. This one will suck.
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An hour of it is people standing in line.
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Starring Tom Morrow?
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Let's see. . .professional wrestler star, Disney live action movie, based on not even a theme park ride but a themed section of a park where rides are located. Nope, nothing wrong here, I'm just going to go rest my head in the oven for a half hour. . .
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The article in Variety had hardly any info. Herc's post had nothing either. Sorry Herc I generally respect you and all, but we need some more meat on this bone before we can tell if it tastes good or not.
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Yesssssssssss!!!!
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Yesssss!!!!
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"...It will bring TEAs to your eyes..."
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Sep 17, 2008 11:12:52 PM CDT
Hopefully it will be better than TOWER OF TERROR w/ Steve Gutten
by ye not guilty
Actually TOWER OF TERROR wasn't that bad. At least not as bad as HAUNTED MANSION or COUNTRY BEARS.
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So I guess that means it takes place in the 1980s. HA! Get it? Because everything "futuristic" about it was thought up by guys in the 60s. (it took me three days to come up with this...)
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The movie will be 25 minutes shorter for those who are diligent planners.
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If it had a decent writer attached, I'd be interested. An upbeat future movie (keep in mind I'm assuming this'll be upbeat) would be a nice change from all of the apocalypse stuff. Not that the future won't be apocalyptic in nature considering the two ninnyhammers we've got running for president, but dammit I like to pretend.
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Now that Pirates is over (for now) it's time to move on to other attractions. Some people have saying that Tomorrowland needs an upgrade on the park. Well, here's the excuse to do so.
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I know it's probably shitty, but how is that I've never even heard of this movie, or these 2 asshats that wrote it?am I alone here?
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... if you had wings.
If you had wings, had wings.
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but when I saw this article I immediately thought it was a sequel to West World.
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...as a comedy about a modern day astronaut who, on his return to Earth, crash lands on the Disney ride version of the year 20XX. That could actually be very humorous. Sort of a Disney version of IDIOCRACY. A nice scene of people shocked to see the astronaut walking on the People Mover. Him frustrated with how slow it is, walking through the crowd, a police officer (soon to be about a dozen) ‘chasing’ him down by having a slightly faster people mover running parallel to the main one. Yet, still running much slower than the astronaut walking. The astronaut using the ‘phone of tomorrow’ or taking a ride in a ‘Procyon Rocket Ship’ or a drive on the ‘Autopia’. I don’t know, could be kind of funny.
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Hopefully DLR gets their shit together and renovates that out of date piece of Eisner filth.
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seriously. the man deserves better
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My wife and I went to Disneyworld two years ago. "TOMORROWland" looked EXACTLY like it did when I was a kid. In 1982. When it still looked like it was designed from sets left over from a 1960s Science Fiction movie. Weak, people, weak.
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Rocky sucks for doing Disney shit more than once. He should do movies laying the smack down or he should do some comedy. He is perfect for that. And Rock needs that iconic character. Eastwood is Dirty Harry, Stallone is Rocky and Rambo, Gibson is Riggs and Willis is John McClane.
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think about. JUST think about it.
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it's just that most of his movies are.
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Well, I can dream.
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I really like the guy. He is nearly always one of the best things in his movies, he's got charisma by the bucket load, according to my wife he's fit as all hell (and admit it guys, we've all got a small man crush on him ..... no! ..... *cough*).But like it's already been said above, he really needs an iconic role to lift him upto into the higher echelons of Hollywood.
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Wasn't "Meet the Robinsons" based on the broader concept of Tomorrowland? I didn't see it, but I seem to recall seeing Space Mountain in the ads for it.
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I remember when I first saw the trailer for "National Treasure," the first thing I heard was "From the people who brought you 'Prirates of the Caribbean" and the next thing I heard was Nic Cage rambling about the founding fathers, and I immediately thought "Oh no, it's 'Hall of Presidents' the movie!" It's just a matter of time, people. "Hall of Presidents," then "Jungle Cruise," "Enchanted Tiki Room" and "Main Street Railroad" are all coming to a theater near you, and all starring Eddie Murphy no doubt...*shudder*
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Coz Westworld was pretty cool but Futureworld kinda sucked ass...
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In case the Disney Corporation has forgotten, let's have a little history lesson: TOMORROWLAND was built, much as EPCOT was, to emulate a World's Fair-type showcase for PROGRESS, the FUTURE, and HUMAN POTENTIAL. When the park was first designed we were racing Russia to the moon. SPACE was the future, it was progress... at the time! While that's still a frontier to explore, HUMAN POTENTIAL has many more directions to go, and limiting a TOMORROWLAND film to space totally betrays the original vision of the park.
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...Follows a group of unrelated people randomly strolling through the woods, an old mill, small caves and a fort for 2 1/2 hours.
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I always thought if they did a SPACE MOUNTAIN movie it could really kickass.... with the right script, and the Rock it could be huge...... Look at Pirates of the Caribbean, those movies have very little to do with the ride, you just have little nods and an otherwise fun movie. I wanna see Haunted Mansion re-made (without eddie murphy), and Thunder Mountain the movie!
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...on line in the hot Orlando sun?
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please, Hollywood, make this happen...
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"Adventureland: The Restroom" starring Shia LeBoeuf as "Man Taking a Dump"
"Main Street Souvenir Store Checkout" starring Miley Cyrus as "Ditzy Clerk"
"Magic Kingdom Parking Lot" starring Michael Keaton as "Dad" and Sarah Palin's daughter as "Whiny Teenager" -
Disney has let tomorrowland fall behind technology. At this point it looks like some 1960's Retroland.
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Jesus H. What the hell are they thinking? It didn't work for The Haunted Mansion. Disney is taking cues from f*cking Mattel Toys. Barbie is a hasbeen no matter how many times you try to associate it with some current pop-culture. The company has been on the skids for the last 15 years. Disney shouldn't do this. They had fabulous success with Pirates but not because it was a theme-park ride turned movie. And Enchanted was hilarious because it fractured the mold. Come on, Disney, you guys are better than this.
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...didn't they close that park though?
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but what if *I* float away?
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is NOT worth the 2 hour wait.The submarine sandwich, on the other hand, ain't bad.
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lots of space movies lately. Space and bright shiny future stuff. I'm all for it, but it just seems kinda out of place in a time where we really don't have a space program. 20 years ago, this made sense.
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WWE is no wonderland, but he left a prime position in that company to be Disney's go-to bitch? Unless he's blown all of his cash, he doesn't have to keep making these shitty flicks strictly to pay bills, so why even bother? Could there be the slight possibility that he actually thinks that these are great projects? I don't know which is worse, the fact that he keeps doing this shit or the fact that he might LIKE it. I'm pretty sure that the root of his problem is that audiences don't take him seriously, hence why all of his movies routinely bomb. Then, he strikes gold with The Game Plan and decides that if mainstream audiences who know is as "that wrestling guy" won't come to his flicks, little kids who have no clue who the hell he is will turn out, dragging their parents along for the ride. Very smart and very stupid at the same time. If he just wants money, smart move. If he wants to be taken seriously, dumber than dumb move.
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I would love to see him knock some head on the happiest cruise that ever set sail...
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stop with your dirty minds
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...would quit and become a Disney slave, I probably wouldn't believe you. I'd also probably laugh at you and fuck your wife.
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A great title for a porn movie by the way.
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. . . and produce "Disneyland Gift Shop: The Movie".
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If it was well done, the premise of an alien astronaut crash landing at Disney would be something I'd watch. I think you'd have to move the setting to Epcot though.
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Sep 18, 2008 2:31:45 PM CDT
How about this idea for a Disneyland/Disneyworld movie...
by royston lodge
A mad entertainment executive with a soft quasi-fascist world-view decides to build a theme park, which in actual fact is REALLY merely the beachhead for his own schemes to launch a bloodless coup d'etat against the United States Government and usher in a New World Order!!! We're through the looking-glass here people...
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Um, Herc and all the other fine leader types? If I want Variety-speak I can go read Variety. Please please please avoid the rancid and silly Hollywoodtalk like "actioner."
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That smalls like farts.
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That's what I heard was in the works next. They hit gold with Pirates, but they haven't been able to keep it going. The issue is that they make the properties comedic when they should be action adventures with comedy tossed in. The Haunted Mansion should have been a slighty edgy PG-13 horror movie, but they chose the comedic route.
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The problem with Haunted House is that the story turned on old-fashioned racism, and then they suppressed every single aspect of that so as not to upset any of the PG crowd. Darrrrrrr...
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oh wait.
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