Universal Studio Orlando to get Cabin in the Woods
I'm not sure about you, but I start thinking about Halloween in the Spring. (Mostly because Spring is stupid, Autumn rules and I want pumpkin flavored everything.) It looks like the folks at Universal Studios start thinking about Halloween pretty early too. Universal Studios in Orlando have announced the first of many haunted houses will be based on 2012's CABIN IN THE WOODS.
You didn't see the movie? Do it! It's available on Netflix (at least it is in the States). It was directed by Drew Goddard and co-written and produced by Joss Whedon. The movie stars Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Fran Kranz, and Richard Jenkins and has a bit of something for nearly all horror movie fans. It has horror, bits of comedy, and it flips the genre on its head a few times in the best ways.
Michael Aiello of Universal Studios Orlando told Zap2It, "We are building the cabin completely. You’re going to walk through a forest to get there. You’re going into the cabin. You’re going to go into the cube cells. We’re literally taking everything we can in the film and giving you a kind of best-of montage of the film with this kind of linking story."
Drew Goddard is with the Universal Studios team to develop a script that goes with the new storyline that parallels the one in the film. Goddard and Aiello did not confirm whether any of the film's cast would be involved in the making of the videos within the CABIN IN THE WOODS house. Videos in the queue and within the maze will explain the mythology of CABIN IN THE WOODS and the idea of the film's sacrifices and gods, and then guests will experience the events of the movie - including some of the sacrifices - in real time from a different perspective.
"My wish for 'Cabin' was always that it would live on outside the film, that people would take that ball and run with it, and I can't imagine a better fit for what we were trying to do with the movie than to make a maze out of it," Goddard says.
"I'm too excited by it. I can't believe this is happening. I'm just so happy that the film has continued to live on," Goddard said. And Joss? Goddars says that Whedon is equally pleased after seeing Universal's concepts for the maze. "He couldn't be more excited," said Goddard.
This isn't the first time something Joss'y was at HHN. Remember these guys? They were featured at Universal Studios: Orlando's HHN in 2005 and 2008.
"We're trying to adapt this film as best as we physically can in the context of what we have," says Aiello.
Halloween Horror nights runs from September 20th until November 2nd. Tickets are already available here. Don't look for a CABIN IN THE WOODS house at Universal Studios: Hollywood - it won't be there. This is an Orlando exclusive.
The haunted houses at Halloween Horror Nights are “movie set quality” recreations of fantastic locations. Each haunted house is indoors, and they are usually located in either the unused queue area of a daytime attraction or one of the Universal soundstages. Past haunted houses have featured big pop-culture names such as AMC'S The Walking Dead, the Silent Hill video game series, the Saw film series.
via Zap2it and FoxNews
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