Fans of Disney‘s Tower of Terror — formally named The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and located at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Florida (and previously Disney’s California Adventure) — are going to have wait a bit bit for the film adaptation. Scarlett Johansson is about to star in and produce the venture, however she recently told Entertainment Weekly that “Tower of Terror” as a film was “a hard nut to crack.”
“Harder than you think, because the ride itself, there’s some lore to it, but it’s… I don’t want to say thin, but it is, kind of!,” Johansson stated of the trip’s plot, themed after the legendary anthology Rod Serling-created sequence (plural) “The Twilight Zone” — which itself turned a notorious, lore-filled ’80s flick. Riders of the attraction are taken to the Twilight Zone after lightning strikes the Hollywood Tower Hotel.
While Johansson stated there may not be “much to dig into” with the trip itself, she remains to be having fun with the method. “That’s part of the mystery of the ride. It’s been a fun project to work on, because it’s a blue sky project,” she stated, insisting the inventive staff would “crack the case of it” and that it was “taking shape.”
Johansson will hit theaters on July 2 with “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” in a job she was notably excited to land due to her obsession with Steven Spielberg’s traditional authentic movie.
“I had a meeting with him and I don’t actually know if he knew the depths of my ‘Jurassic’ fandom, but I’m hoping that no one explained it to him too thoroughly because it maybe would’ve come off as being a little too much,” Johansson stated in an interview with THR. “Although knowing Steven now, he was excited when I shared how much it would mean to me to play any part in ‘Jurassic.’ I could’ve played it cooler and maybe I wouldn’t have gotten it.”
When she was solid, “The Avengers” actress deep into manufacturing on her directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great” — which premiered at Cannes in May.
“So there was a lot happening at the time. I had to compartmentalize my nervous excitement for the job in front of me while also focusing on making it work,” she stated. “I would have these really geeked out, fangirl moments and then be, like, ‘OK, put that away for a second.’”
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