Check out Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota in first-look photo from Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie directed by Justin Simien.
Disney is giving the Haunted Mansion another spin on the big-screen, twenty years after the Eddie Murphy adaptation crashed and burned. The first trailer shows that they have done a much better job than the Eddie Murphy adaptation. The new film boasts a fun cast, including Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota, a fan favourite character who is featured in the seance scene for the theme-park ride.
Entertainment Weekly has released a first-look image of Jamie Lee Curtis as Madame Leota in Haunted Mansion, and you can check that out below.
Haunted Mansion director Justin Simien teased that Jamie Lee Curtis’ take on Madame Leota is a “little subversive” and a “little funny” when compared to the theme-park character. “She starts off as one of the relics, one of the items, one of the aspects of the house that has to be discovered, but becomes a functional character and a useful ally in the film,” Simien said.
ride, wanted to create as many practical effects as possible. “You’re aware that a trick is being played on you but you don’t know how they did it. The Pepper’s Ghost effect , it’s so old school, you know it’s not a screen, but it’s because[during the ride’s finale] it’s so old school that it feels like it’s really there,” Simien explained. “There is a practicality in the tricks on the ride which I felt was very important. When I accepted the job, I said that I didn’t want to make CGI. We have to build the home. Even if it’s not an effect we are doing practically, we need to make it appear that we did. There’s something about grounded-ness in the ride that makes the ride what it is. It makes it charming.“The new film follows a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Haunted Mansion
stars LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Dan Levy, Jared Leto, Chase W. Dillon, Hasan Minhaj, Winona Ryder, and Jamie Lee Curtis.Haunted Mansion will hit theaters on
July 28th.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gartMjonTXc
