*Michael Chabon has been confirmed as writer of Disney’s _Magic
Kingdom_; he joins director Jon Favreau in bringing the famous Disney
theme park to the big screen.*
Chabon, screenwriter of _Spider-Man 2_ and the upcoming _John Carter_
and _20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Captain Nemo_, was rumoured to be
writing the _Magic Kingdom_ a few months ago.
Well, it seems that there was truth to those rumours after all. It has
been suggested that the _Magic Kingdom_ could be likened to _A Night
At The Museum_, only set in Disneyland.
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news, and they also speculate that
the film may span across “other parks worldwide”, as well
as Disneyland in California.
As more details of _Magic Kingdom_ come to light, Jon Favreau has been
speaking about his preparation and research for the film. At the Hero
Complex Film Festival, Favreau spoke about taking on such beloved
Disney icons:
“To get to speak for the canon of [Marvel, with the _Iron Man_
movies] and adopted as part of it is a really fun cultural thing. And
even more so as I do my research on Disney because people are so
connected to all of these archetypes and in our society, the
commonality in our melting pot tends to be the secular aspect of our
society.
"Somehow the Disney characters and what we grew up with, whether going
to the parks or watching the movies, our generation, our parents, our
grandparents, all have felt the same emotions and grown up with those
characters and so to have the opportunity [is amazing.]”
So how do you research a film set in a theme park?
“I’ve been hanging out with the Imagineers, especially
Tony Baxter who is the main dude who has been there for decades. They
called up and said: ‘Do you want to go on the after dark
tour?’ And they said, ‘Where do you want to go? We
don’t close till midnight so why don’t we have dinner at
the Blue Bayou or Club 33,’ I said ‘Blue Bayou is
fine,’ and then we’ll wait until the park closes,
we’ll hang out at Walt’s apartment over the fire station.
"It’s untouched and the baby bottles are still there, pictures
of him and his wife are there and it’s over the lookout and you
see down into the park.And then when it closed they say ‘Okay,
where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,
Pirates?’ ‘Okay Pirates.’ They open up Pirates [of
the Caribbean] and there you are walking behind the sets and over the
bridges and The Haunted Mansion?
"All the things I grew up saying ‘How did they do that?’
And now I’m looking at the way they do it.
"It just touches things in me and that all, again, it’s always
about emotion and what’s charged for people in a good way where
you can be respectful of it but not overly reverent of it.
"Pixar does a really good job, _Toy Story_ does a really good job of
finding that tone and to me, on these big movies, it’s all about
tone. That’s my only gig as a director is to make sure the
tone’s right…
"As a director your only true responsibility is coordinating it and
making it have the proper tone and personality and so when you see
something that really inspires you, it allows you to obsess on
something for two years, which is how long these movies take.
"You have to find something that just really floats your boat and it
gets you excited.
"At least where I’m at now, I haven’t had to compromise
yet in my career as far as far as the material I’ve chosen. I
don’t always know what I’m getting myself into but I
always start off with feeling extremely bullish on the whole
situation.
"And this one, it gets me excited that I can do something I’ve
never done before. And also, I’ve got three kids and just to
connect with something that joins all generations of my family, at
this point in my life, is really really exciting and compelling."
It seems that Favreau is taking his responsibility to Disney fans very
seriously indeed. As he's teaming with Disney's current go-to
screenwriter, let's hope this turns out to be something special.
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