
But, as you might have guessed, neither of these stories ends well for the poor astronauts. " Europa Report" and "Last Days on Mars" both have a more serious style, and each tries to create a fairly realistic depiction of what human missions to Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa might look like.
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"Ghosts of Mars" is a hybrid of space-horror movie and supercool action movie (complete with lots of guns and cheesy one-liners). That campaign didn't really catch on, but it's still a fun flick. The company that produced the movie actually tried to stir up rumors that the film was real, calling it a "documentary." They cooked up a story about how an entire moon mission could have been hidden from public knowledge. "Apollo 18" is a fun, found-footage-style horror movie about a fictional mission to the moon, which ends badly. Unfortunately, in these filmmakers' vision, the life-forms seem to always take an offensive position when they encounter humans. If it's successful, then we can all look forward to the forthcoming sequel Space Mountain: Ghost Galaxy.Solar system scares: "Ghosts of Mars" (2001), "Apollo 18" (2011), "Europa Report" (2013), "The Last Days on Mars" (2013)įour movies constitute a trend: Filmmakers love to explore the possibility of finding life on a planet or moon close to Earth. A fun new science fiction adventure is always something that audiences will go for if executed well. The previously mentioned Michael Giacchino wrote the score for that film as well, so it could be easily integrated, and we can slowly begin to create the Disney theme park cinematic universe.ĭisney's track record with the theme park inspired movies certainly isn't without its faults, but as somebody who loves the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie and has high hopes for the delayed Jungle Cruise, I'm excited for the potential of a Space Mountain movie. If the Space Mountain movie really wanted to have some fun, it could even reference the Tomorrowland movie.

Perhaps we could see Peoplemovers used to transport characters throughout the space station, or even a cafeteria that resembles the Pizza Port, but hopefully with better pizza. Since there are not a great number of ways to reference Space Mountain directly, a Space Mountain movie could take some inspiration from the larger Tomorrowland where the attraction is located at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Since the various Space Mountain attractions use different designs, we could see multiple ships, each borrowing the look and feel of a different attraction. The actual spacecraft in the film could reference the ride vehicles. However it works, by making a location like this a key part of the story, the Space Mountain movie can do more to capture the look that those familiar with the ride will recognize. Or perhaps the main character is a pilot on one of these shuttles who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe the story is about employees at one of these Mission Control centers where people travel between intergalactic destinations. Space travel is a fairly normal thing in the world of Space Mountain, and that should be the case for the film as well. It has a Mission Control overseeing the continuous launches, and basically, it's an airport, but in space.

In as much as there is an actual story in the Space Mountain attraction, the building is designed to look like an intergalactic transit hub, with guests boarding a space vehicle that then launches into space. Maybe this mountain on an unknown planet is the goal for the hero, or maybe it's where they're from, but either way, it needs to be there.Ī Story About The Journey, Not The Destination I mean, that's almost certainly going to happen, right? Because as previously mentioned, there just aren't a lot of other story elements to tie the ride into the movie the way that Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion were able to do. The coaster itself is the "mountain."īut if we're going to call the movie Space Mountain, then there needs to be an actual mountain somewhere at the heart of the story. But what exactly is a Space Mountain anyway? Clearly the only reason it has that name is that it's a large roller coaster.

So, since then, the major Disney attractions of significant size, mostly roller coasters, all were given the name "mountain." Some of them, like Thunder Mountain Railroad, make some sense, as there is an actual, albeit scaled-down, mountain in the attraction. The first Disneyland roller coaster was the Matterhorn, built to resemble the actual mountain found in the Alps.
