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Having successfully transformed Pirates of the Caribbean from a theme park attraction to a movie franchise — and somewhat less successfully attempting to do the same thing with The Haunted Mansion — it looks like Disney is looking to work its magic on yet another theme park ride. Are you ready for Space Mountain: The Comic Book?
The official title for the project is apparently Space Mountain: A Graphic Novel, a 176-page original graphic novel to be published by Disney Press next year. Written by Bryan Q. Miller, a writer for the CW’s Smallville as well as DC’s Smallville tie-in comic and fan-favorite Batgirl comic, the graphic novel will be illustrated by former Batman and Sandman artist Kelley Jones.
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According to the plot description on Amazon, the story takes place in the year 2125, where “the Magellan Science Academy has given two lucky cadets ‘golden tickets’ to join a team of space explorers on a special field trip to journey 24 hours into the future. But when their mission goes unexpectedly wrong, the two kids must band together with a miniature flying saucer sidekick to save themselves and their crew — and return to Space Mountain — before time runs out and the universe is destroyed!” Golden tickets? Holy Roald Dahl!
A report on the Bleeding Cool website describes the book as the first of a trilogy and suggests that more information will be revealed at New York Comic Con this October. It’ll be interesting to see whether this is the start of a bigger move to turn Space Mountain into a story, as opposed to a ride. Space Mountain: The Movie, anyone?
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