Hasta La Ideas

With the Pirates of the Caribbean now an established multi-multi-million dollar franchise and plans for turning its Magic Kingdom and Haunted Mansion theme park rides into films in the near future, Disney is now rooting around in perhaps less-expected areas for more of its own properties to mine for movies. The LA Times reports that the Museum of Weird, a half-museum/half-ride that was developed in the 1960s as a Disneyland attraction but never got off the ground, is in early talks for being developed into a film by none other than Ahmet Zappa (given the Zappa family’s creative history, something with “weird” as a theme seems entirely fitting). Though the paper reports that it’s still very, very early in the process, they say that the company has high hopes for the project. If it manages to get off the ground, it’ll be interesting to see if it becomes another Pirates-esque franchise or fizzles and becomes another film time forgets, like their incredibly bizarre, attraction-to-film The Country Bears.

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