Sounds like we might have a few odd museums to look forward to in the next few years, as there’s talk of a Night At The Museum 3, Dreamworks is working on Musunahi – The Museum Of Supernatual History – and now Disney wants to enter The Museum Of The Weird.
It’s sort of a continuation of the House Of Mouse’s love of turning Disneyland theme park attractions into movies, only this time, The Museum of the Weird is actually an attraction that never got off the ground.
Walt Disney fell in love with the idea of The Museum of the Weird back in the 1960s. According to the LA Times, It was an idea conjured up by longtime Disneyland imagineers Rolly Crump and Claude Coats, which promised to showcase ghostly organists, magical carts, talking chairs and other surreal and odd exhibits. It was originally meant to sit adjacent to The Haunted Mansion, complete with its own restaurant. The Museum of the Weird never quite got off the ground, but some of the artifacts created for the attraction eventual wound up inside The Haunted Mansion.
Ahmet Zappa will take the ideas created by Rolly Crump and Claude Coats and fashion them into a story along the lines of Night at the Museum. An actual attraction will also be built inside Disneyland once the movie is completed. However all this is still in the early stages, and with Disney also working on Haunted Mansion 3D and Magic Kingdom (based on the whole of the original Disneyland) going full steam ahead, don’t expect it anytime soon.