Hawkeye directorial duo Bert & Berti continued to work with Disney and will now direct a Disney feature film based on the theme park’s Big Thunder Mountain attraction. .
Located in several Disney parks, the attraction is a mining town during the 1800s gold rush. Disaster inevitably hits the town. Either an earthquake (California, Paris), a tsunami (Tokyo), or a flood (Florida).
Ten years ago, Disney-owned ABC channel developed a western pilot that attracted the interest of executive producer of Ice Age: Continental Drift writer Jason Fuchs and Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan. But the project did not get off the ground, he writes Hollywood Reporter.
Disney has already had success in the past and has turned theme park rides into movies: Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise and 2023’s Haunted Mansion starring Rosario Dawson.
Previously Walt Disney Pictures removes drama “Grace” about a talented dancer with a disability.