The 2003 “Haunted Mansion” starring Eddie Murphy as a real estate agent who buys a mansion that turns out to be haunted was called “laughless,” “lifeless” and “soulless” by movie critics. The 1955 opening day Disneyland attraction began life as Rocket to the Moon before eventually morphing into Mission to Mars in 1975 and closing in 1992 as the future caught up to Tomorrowland. The film earned Brian De Palma a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for worst director. The 2002 “Mission to Mars” sci-fi epic starring Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle follows a rescue mission after an interstellar disaster during the first manned mission to Mars. Disneyland’s Country Bear Jamboree attraction in Critter Country ride was replaced by the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 2003. Sound unbearable? Critics and audiences agreed. The 2002 “Country Bears” movie stars Christopher Walken as a greedy banker threatening to tear down the all-bear band’s old concert hall in a world where bears live side by side with humans. Sound familiar? That was the plot of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attraction at Disney California Adventure before the drop tower ride was transformed with a new Marvel superhero theme into Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: Breakout. The 1997 “Tower of Terror” made-for-TV movie stars Steve Guttenberg as a reporter who investigates the mysterious disappearance of five guests when the Hollywood Tower Hotel is struck by lightning in 1939. For every hit like the “Pirates” films, there have been many more misses. Hollywood is littered with failed films based on Disneyland attractions and themed lands. While most Disneyland and Disney California Adventure attractions are based on Disney, Pixar, Marvel or Star Wars films, a few rides were dreamed up by Walt Disney Imagineering with completely original backstories. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) The ride was changed to remove negative depictions of native people and instead of sending guests through unrelated scenes in the jungle, the attraction will now operate with a fully formed story connecting each vignette. What used to be a canoe full of skulls is now an expedition’s wrecked boat that was taken over by chimpanzees on Jungle Cruise in Adventureland inside Disneyland in Anaheim, CA, on Friday, July 9, 2021. There is already discussion of a “Jungle Cruise” sequel, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Disney hopes the $200 million “Jungle Cruise” tentpole film spawns a string of sequels that follows in the footsteps of its most famous ride turned movie: The $4.5 billion “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise starring Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
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