Halloween (2018) and Halloween Kills director David Gordon Green is helming a movie about Walt Disney's real-life journey to building Disneyland.

According to Deadline, Evan Spiliotopoulos is scripting the project for Disney+, with Green onboard as director. Spiliotopoulos penned multiple direct-to-DVD Disney animated film sequels and spinoffs during the 2000s and has since refocused on writing live-action movies, starting with the Dwayne Johnson-led Hercules in 2014 and continuing on to Disney's live-action/CG Beauty and the Beast remake and, most recently, Paramount's Snake Eyes. Like Green, Spiliotopoulos has a background in horror, having made his directorial debut on this year's supernatural thriller The Unholy.

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Disneyland opened to the public in 1955 and was the only theme park built under Walt Disney's personal supervision before his death in 1966. Producer Jason Reed, who worked on Disney's live-action Mulan remake, developed the pitch for Green's film and will produce with Cavalry Media's Dana Brunetti and Matt DelPiano. Reed's trusted collaborator Jessica Matthews will also serve as an executive producer on the movie.

For Green, his decision to helm a movie about the origin of "The Happiest Place on Earth" marks yet another unexpected turn in his directing career. His eclectic filmography includes genre-blending stoner comedies (Pineapple Express, Your Highness), grounded dramas (All the Real Girls, Joe) and political satires (Our Brand Is Crisis), in addition to his Halloween movies. Green has also directed multiple episodes of the HBO series Vice Principals and The Righteous Gemstones, starring his Halloween co-writer Danny McBride, and is developing a trilogy of Exorcist films for Universal.

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Green's Disneyland film will be one of the rare movies featuring a live-action depiction of the House of Mouse's founder. Tom Hanks notably portrayed Walt Disney in 2013's Saving Mr. Banks, a dramedy about his struggle to convince Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to grant him the screen rights to the practically perfect nanny. A critical and box office hit, Saving Mr. Banks drew controversy for playing relatively fast and loose with the facts of the story, like how it all but ignores Mr. Disney's smoking habit and reframes Travers' feelings about the first Mary Poppins movie.

Halloween Kills begins playing in theaters and streaming on Peacock on Oct. 15.

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Source: Deadline