Out Of The Jungle...

JC is in da Mouse house...









Deadline Hollywood is reporting that the long in development, "Jungle Cruise" film may be pushing through the brush...

This project has been developing for a while, with screenwriters Miles Millar and Alfred Gough turning in a draft over a year ago. The renewed interest is because of the possibility of attaching Tom Hanks and Tim Allen together on the family adventure.

Roger S.H. Schulman has been hired to write, or rewrite the script and David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing the film through their Mandeville Films production shingle. No director is on board yet. Let's cross our fingers that this doesn't wind up something like "Haunted Mansion" with Eddie Murphy. Humor is fine, but this should be a film focusing on adventure and exploration, and not turn into a comedic, safari version of "Jumanji." Will it make it out of development to filming? Development Hell is littered with projects that never saw the light of day. Then again, projects that have come to fruition only to crash and burn are endless as well.

To infinity and beyond...

UPDATE: The Studio has released a statement:

The Walt Disney Studios is excited to be in development with Mandeville Films and writer Roger S.H. Schulman on a feature film based on the Jungle Cruise, one of the most iconic attractions in Disney theme park history. The film will pair up Tim Allen and Tom Hanks in their first live-action project, after their previous collaborations in the Toy Story trilogy.‬

Small Creators Sell Salisbury To Disney...

Al Gough and Miles Millar, the creators of the WB/CW hit "Smallville" are set to make their directorial debut with a film for Walt Disney Pictures titled: "Salisbury." The tale is the supernatural story of a gang of youths.

The duo were recently writing Disney's "Jungle Cruise" adaptation and have been working on "Robotech" for Warner Bros. to develop. These guys also wrote the original draft of "The Mummy 3," which didn't suck near as much as the movie did.

Interesting...

Disney Plans On You Taking A "Jungle Cruise"...

Walt Disney Pictures have toyed with the idea of making a movie using the Jungle Cruise ride for sometime now... since 2002 or so, I believe. It appears now they are much more serious about it.

Their goal is to make it a Summer/Holiday event and even though there is no director attached the project is being viewed as a possible Christmas 2008 release or Summer 2009 should events drag on. All this is subject to change depending on if the script(by Alfred Gough & Miles Millar of Smallville, Shanghai Noon/Knights and The Mummy 3, no less) is greenlit, a director is found and casting of actors goes smoothly(translate that as getting an "A" list actor to sign on).

Can "It's A Small World" the movie be far behind? Uhg... I hope not. I have a hard enough time getting that song out of my head now. Let me see... what other properties can they milk... err, I mean exploit. Indy... nope, done that. Finding Nemo Subs... nahh, that's been done too! Well, I don't know 'bout you... but I'd love to see a new version of Davy Crockett, ala: Pirates of the Caribbean style. How 'bout we see if Russell Crowe is free for a few months of filming and Michael Mann will agree to pull it in under three hours with a PG-13 rating? What am I saying??? That's SUCH wishful thinking...