List of film adaptations of Disney attractions

This is a list of films and television series produced by The Walt Disney Company based on or suggested by Disney Park attractions. They are distributed by Walt Disney Pictures unless otherwise noted. The list also includes any relevant sequels, spin-offs, and remakes.

Released

Film	Attraction	Release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Producer(s)	Ref.
Tower of Terror[a]	The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror	October 26, 1997	D. J. MacHale		Iain Paterson	[1]
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride[b]	Mr. Toad's Wild Ride	October 31, 1997	Terry Jones		Jake Eberts and John Goldstone	[2]
Mission to Mars[c]	Mission to Mars	March 10, 2000	Brian De Palma	Jim Thomas, John Thomas and Graham Yost	Tom Jacobson
The Country Bears	Country Bear Jamboree	July 26, 2002	Peter Hastings	Mark Perez	Andrew Gunn and Jeffrey Chernov	[3]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Pirates of the Caribbean	July 9, 2003	Gore Verbinski	Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio	Jerry Bruckheimer	[4]
The Haunted Mansion	The Haunted Mansion	November 26, 2003	Rob Minkoff	David Berenbaum	Andrew Gunn and Don Hahn	[5]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Pirates of the Caribbean	July 7, 2006	Gore Verbinski	Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio	Jerry Bruckheimer	[6]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End		May 25, 2007				[7]
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides		May 20, 2011	Rob Marshall			[8]
Tomorrowland[d]	Tomorrowland	May 22, 2015	Brad Bird	Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird	Damon Lindelof, Brad Bird and Jeffrey Chernov	[9]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales[e]	Pirates of the Caribbean	May 26, 2017	Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg	Jeff Nathanson	Jerry Bruckheimer	[10]
Jungle Cruise[f]	Jungle Cruise	July 30, 2021	Jaume Collet-Serra	Michael Green, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa	John Davis, John Fox, Beau Flynn, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia	[12]
Haunted Mansion	The Haunted Mansion	July 28, 2023	Justin Simien	Katie Dippold	Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich	[13][14][15][16]

Upcoming

Film	Attraction	Release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Producer(s)	Ref.
Untitled sixth Pirates of the Caribbean film	Pirates of the Caribbean	TBA	Joachim Rønning	—	Jerry Bruckheimer	[17][18][19][20][21][22]
Space Mountain	Space Mountain		—	Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec	Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell, Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich	[23]
Tower of Terror	The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror		—	Josh Cooley	Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Lia	[24]
Untitled Jungle Cruise sequel	Jungle Cruise		Jaume Collet-Serra	Michael Green	John Davis, John Fox, Beau Flynn, Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia	[25]
Big Thunder Mountain	Big Thunder Mountain Railroad		Bert and Bertie	Michele and Kieran Mulroney	—	[26]
Figment	Journey into Imagination		—	Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit	Seth Rogen	[27]

Television series

Television series	Attraction	Release date	Ref.
It's a Small World: The Animated Series	It's a Small World	November 26, 2013 – February 4, 2014	[28]
Miles from Tomorrowland	Tomorrowland	February 6, 2015 – September 10, 2018	[29][30]
Duffy and Friends	Duffy the Disney Bear	2024	[31]

Television specials

Television special	Attraction	Release date	Director(s)	Screenwriter(s)	Producer(s)	Ref.
Muppets Haunted Mansion[g]	The Haunted Mansion	October 8, 2021[h]	Kirk Thatcher	Kirk Thatcher, Kelly Younger and Bill Barretta	Chelsea DeVincent	[32]

Short film

Short film	Attraction	Release date	Director(s)	Ref.
Tales of the Code: Wedlocked	Pirates of the Caribbean	2011	James Ward Byrkit	[33]

Scrapped projects

In the 1970s, a planned feature film based on It's a Small World was going to be a Cold War-tinged comedy adventure where the children of UN leaders try to get their parents to stop squabbling through faking mass-kidnapping, only for a war profiteer to try to take advantage of the fear and start a mass conflict.^[34]

In 2011, Disney announced that it would make a movie based on the Matterhorn Bobsleds called The Hill, about five teenagers who go on a journey up the mountain and encounter a yeti.^[35] In 2021, the company announced that it would produce a film based on the attraction for their streaming service Disney+, with the working title Matterhorn.^[36]

In April 2014, it was announced that a feature film franchise about It's a Small World was in the works, to be directed by Jon Turteltaub, written by Jared Stern, and produced by Turteltaub, Stern, and Dan Lin.^[37] The project was still in development in early 2016;^[38] No new information on the film has been released.

In July 2014, it was announced that Disney Television Animation was developing a animated special based on the Haunted Mansion, the project originally was going to be helm by Phineas and Ferb writters Joshua Prett and Scott D. Peterson with Gris Grimly as art director and executive producer, the project was later re-developed as a potential mini-series for Disney XD with Shannon Tindle as executive producer but executive changes at Disney Branded Television in 2017 shelved the production.^[39][40]

In October 2018, it was reported that Disney had been looking for ways to reboot the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, bringing on Deadpool (2016) writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, though producer Jerry Bruckheimer was expected to return.^[41] However, in February 2019, Reese and Wernick departed the project and the reboot was cancelled.^[42]

In June 2020, a female-led spin-off starring Margot Robbie was announced, with Christina Hodson writing the screenplay. The film was to be separate from the sixth film also being developed. Bruckheimer was attached as producer.^[43] In November 2022, Robbie said the project was not going forward.^[44][45]

In October 2022, The Hollywood Reporter reported that a film based on Society of Explorers and Adventurers was in development with Qui Nguyen writing the screenplay and Ryan Reynolds producing.^[46]

Dreamfinders, a television show loosely based on Journey into Imagination, was supposed to be one of the first TV shows aired on the Disney Channel when it first launched back in 1983; the series would have focused on Dreamfinder and Figment teaming up with other residents of the Dream Port and some ordinary children to protect the realm of imagination from a villain called Fear and his minions (with said children being inspired by their experiences to come up with solutions to their ordinary problems). While scripts for episodes were written and on-set production footage exists from a Disney Channel launch preview, no episodes were ever completed according to the Walt Disney Archives Chief Archivist Emeritus Dave Smith, and no explanation was given as to why the project was cancelled.^[47]

Reception

Box office performance

Film	U.S. release date	Box office gross			All-time ranking		Budget	Ref.
		U.S. and Canada	Other territories	Worldwide	U.S. and Canada	Worldwide
Tower of Terror	October 26, 1997	Television film
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride	October 31, 1997	$72,844	£1,274,662	£1.303 million			£9.75 million	[48]
Mission to Mars	March 10, 2000	$60,883,407	$50,100,000	$110,983,407	1,460	1,670	$100 million	[49]
The Country Bears	July 26, 2002	$16,990,825	$1,021,272	$18,012,097	4,163	5,826	$35 million	[50]
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	July 9, 2003	$305,413,918	$348,850,097	$654,264,015	97	154	$140 million	[51]
The Haunted Mansion	November 26, 2003	$75,847,266	$106,443,000	$182,290,266	1,119	1,200	$90 million	[52]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	July 7, 2006	$423,315,812	$642,863,935	$1,066,179,747	32	39	$225 million	[53]
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	May 25, 2007	$309,420,425	$651,576,067	$960,996,492	95	56	$300 million	[54]
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	May 20, 2011	$241,071,802	$804,642,000	$1,045,713,802	155	42	$250 million	[55]
Tomorrowland	May 22, 2015	$93,436,322	$115,599,346	$209,035,668	865	864	$190 million	[56]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	May 26, 2017	$172,558,876	$622,322,566	$794,881,442	315	100	$230 million	[57]
Jungle Cruise[i]	July 30, 2021	$116,987,516	$103,241,648	$220,229,164	590	844	$200 million	[59]
Haunted Mansion (2023)	July 28, 2023	$67,637,887	$49,386,305	$117,024,192	5,340	7,527	$150 million	[60]
Total		$1,754,021,107	$3,371,048,283	$5,133,979,390	—	—	$1,660,000,000	—

Critical and public response

Film	Rotten Tomatoes	Metacritic	CinemaScore
Tower of Terror	—	—	—
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride	75%[61]	—	—
Mission to Mars	24%[62]	34[63]	C-
The Country Bears	31%[64]	—	A-
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	79%[65]	63[66]	A
The Haunted Mansion	14%[67]	34[68]	B
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	53%[69]	53[70]	A-
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End	44%[71]	50[72]	A-
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	33%[73]	45[74]	B+
Tomorrowland	50%[75]	60[76]	B
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales	29%[77]	39[78]	A-
Jungle Cruise	63%[79]	50[80]	A-
Haunted Mansion (2023)	37%[81]	47[82]	B+

Academy Awards

Award	Film
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Best Actor	Nominated[83][84] (Johnny Depp)
Best Art Direction		Nominated[85]
Best Makeup	Nominated[83][84]		Nominated[86]
Best Sound Editing	Nominated[83][84]	Nominated[85]
Best Sound Mixing	Nominated[83][84]	Nominated[85]
Best Visual Effects	Nominated[83][84]	Won[85]	Nominated[86]

See also

• List of Disney live-action adaptations and remakes of Disney animated films

Notes

1. Television film distributed by Walt Disney Television.
2. Originally released in the UK in October 11, 1996 as The Wind in the Willows.
3. Distributed by Touchstone Pictures.
4. Also known as Project T in some regions and subtitled A World Beyond in some other regions.
5. Released in most countries as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge.
6. Disney decided to release the film simultaneously on Disney+ with Premier Access in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[11]
7. Crossover with The Muppets.
8. Stem film distributed by Disney+.
9. Through its first 10 days of release, Samba reported the film had been streamed in 1.5 million households for a running domestic Premier Access gross of $44.98 million.^[58]

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