MORBIUS Star Jared Leto Joins The Cast Of Disney's HAUNTED MANSION Reboot As The Hatbox Ghost

MORBIUS Star Jared Leto Joins The Cast Of Disney's HAUNTED MANSION Reboot As The Hatbox Ghost

It's Mansionin' Time! (sorry). Disney's upcoming Haunted Mansion reboot has made a couple of major casting additions, with Jared Leto and Jamie Lee Curtis joining the ensemble in key roles...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 03, 2022 08:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Morbius

Disney's new take on long-running theme park attraction, Haunted Mansion, has made a couple of major casting additions.

According to EW and One Take News (via FearHQ), Jared Leto (Morbius) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween Kills) have joined the ensemble, which also includes LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, and Danny DeVito.

Leto is set to play The Hatbox Ghost who shows up at various points throughout the ride, while Curtis will take on the role of Madame Leota, the psychic medium whose head appears in the ride's iconic crystal ball

"In this mysterious adventure, a doctor (Dawson) and her 9-year-old son (Chase Dillon), looking to start a new life, move into a strangely affordable mansion in New Orleans, only to discover that the place is much more than they bargained for. Desperate for help, they contact a priest (Wilson), who, in turn, enlists the aid of a widowed scientist-turned failed-paranormal expert (Stanfield), a French Quarter psychic (Haddish) and a crotchety historian (DeVito)."

The Haunted Mansion attraction was previously adapted for the big screen back in 2003, but the movie, directed by Rob Minkoff and starring Eddie Murphy, was a critical and commercial failure. Guillermo del Toro was attached to helm an earlier version of this reboot, but it never came to pass.

This latest incarnation was penned by Katie Dippold (Ghostbusters 2016), and is set to hit theaters on March 10, 2023.

Still no word on whether Leto will reprise his now infamous role as vampiric antihero Michael Morbius, but the chances of a direct sequel seem slim after the movie was re-released in theatres, and flopped... again.

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thewanderer
thewanderer - 8/3/2022, 8:38 AM
Haunted Mansion is one of those IP's that can be really good if handled right, and go very wrong if not.

My kids are excited for the re-make.
AmazingFILMporg
AmazingFILMporg - 8/3/2022, 8:40 AM
Disney saw morbius and said:


ITS MORBIN TIME💪❤️😐🥲😬🤡
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 8/3/2022, 8:47 AM
Realtor: "Now, there's a little history. The family that made the house two hundred years ago mysteriously vanished and every time a new family moves in they vanish as well around the same time, but besides from that this six bedroom house is a steal!"
TheSuperMex
TheSuperMex - 8/3/2022, 8:56 AM
Guillermo del Toro not directing this is a shame.
CaptainDC
CaptainDC - 8/3/2022, 8:58 AM
It’s funny, every time Leto’s been cast since he won his Oscar for Dallas Buyers Club every movie is a commercial and critical flop.

Is he talented? Absolutely. But he doesn’t draw the box office power the media and Twitter lead on to believe.

This should be a Disney+ movie
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 8/3/2022, 9:48 AM
Leto is box office poison. What kind of blackmail does he have on people, that he keeps getting gigs?
TheCoonII
TheCoonII - 8/3/2022, 10:13 AM
BEWARE! (if you know you know ;) )
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 8/3/2022, 11:03 AM
That premise actually sounds quite fun, and the cast is pretty solid for the most part too. Bring on the Disney Attractions Cinematic Universe already!
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