A couple of years back came the announcement that Scarlett Johansson would produce and potentially star in a film adaptation of the Disney theme park ride “Tower of Terror”.
The ride itself, inspired by “The Twilight Zone, takes place in the fictional Hollywood Tower Hotel in California.
Riders step into a seemingly ordinary hotel elevator, and are presented a fictional backstory in which people have mysteriously disappeared from the elevator under the influence of a supernatural element many years previously. The ride is famous for ending on a major free-fall drop.
Josh Cooley (“Toy Story 4”) was set to pen the script for the feature at the time, but since then there has been little in the way of any news. Johansson filing a lawsuit against Disney over its “Black Widow” handling, and then the 2023 WGA strike also didn’t help matters.
Speaking with EW this week to promote “Jurassic World Rebirth,” Johansson confirmed the project is still in development but says it has been tricky, saying:
“Harder than you think, because the ride itself, there’s some lore to it, but it’s… I don’t want to say thin, but it is, kind of! [It] doesn’t have so much to dig into. That’s part of the mystery of the ride. It’s been a fun project to work on, because it’s a blue sky project. It has also proved to be a hard nut to crack. But we’ll crack the case of it. It’s taking shape!”
Disney has not yet set a production or release date for the film so no word as to when a script is ‘due’ at this point.
