Disney’s Haunted Mansion release date set for 2023

Disney’s Haunted Mansion will open its doors to Mouseketeers on March 10, 2023. There are no other films set to debut on that date, allowing Haunted Mansion a chance to welcome plenty of moviegoers into its hallowed halls. The Haunted Mansion release date also knocks one of Disney’s place-holder dates off the calendar.

Directed by Justin Simien (Dear White People) from a script by Katie Dippold (Ghostbusters), Haunted Mansion stars Owen Wilson (Loki, Zoolander), Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip, Night School), Rosario Dawson (Daredevil, Ahsoka), Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta, Get Out), and Danny DeVito (It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia, Death to Smoochy).

Plot details are largely being kept under wraps but Haunted Mansion is said to follow a mother and her son who come across a mansion that is more than it seems while being orbited by various characters key to undressing the spooky mystery. Previous reports have claimed that Stanfield would play a widower who once believed in the supernatural but is now a rather lifeless tour guide in New Orleans’ French Quarter. Haddish would play a psychic hired to commune with the dead. It’s said that Danny DeVito will play a “smug professor.”

Disney’s Haunted Mansion opened in 1969, after years of toil and compromise for the frightful yet funny theme park experience. The premise for the ride involves guests of the park going inside a spooky manor where they encounter ghosts, ghouls, and other members of the undead community. As you venture through the manor, the building itself warps and changes its appearance on several occasions. The experience eventually ends with an unforgettable ghostly encounter that will have you thinking that ghosts are following you back to your hotel.

Now that Disney’s Haunted Mansion release date is set, are you more excited about this film? Are there any ghosts from that ride that you’re hoping to see in the new film? Will characters like the Organist, Little Leota, the Dread Family, and the Hatbox Ghost be featured? Knowing Disney, there will be plenty of Easter eggs and surprises waiting around every spooky corner. I can’t wait to check it out.