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 formerly Disney’s California Adventure) — are going to have wait a little bit for the film adaptation. Scarlett Johansson is set to star in and produce the project, but she recently told Entertainment Weekly that “Tower of Terror” as a movie 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 said of the ride’s plot, themed after the legendary anthology Rod Serling-created series (plural) “The Twilight Zone” — which itself became a notorious, lore-filled ’80s flick. Riders of the attraction are taken to the Twilight Zone after lightning strikes the Hollywood Tower Hotel.
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While Johansson said there might not be “much to dig into” with the ride itself, she is still enjoying the process. “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 said, insisting the creative team 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 role she was particularly excited to land because of her obsession with Steven Spielberg’s classic original film.
“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 said 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 cast, “The Avengers” actress deep into production 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 said. “I would have these really geeked out, fangirl moments and then be, like, ‘OK, put that away for a second.’”
