Walt Disney is making a new space movie

Walt Disney is teaming up with the creators of the Cowboy Bebop series to make a movie based on the Space Mountain theme park.

In the latest Cinema and TV newsAnother Disney theme park is turning into a movie. Walt Disney recently hired Cowboy Bebop and Citadel showrunners Andre Nemec and Josh Applebaum to write the script for a live-action movie based on Disneyland's Space Mountain theme park. Avatar: The Last Airbender series producer Jonathan Irish is on board for Space Mountain via his Rideback banner.

Joby Harold, creator of the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, writer of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, is another film producer who was also the first writer of Space Mountain. Space Mountain is a space-themed indoor roller coaster that was first introduced in 1975 at the Walt Disney World Resort in California and then installed at Disneyland in California in 1977.

The roller coaster then became a permanent part of Tomorrowland with the reopening of the other rides and has been installed in five of the six Disney theme parks. Over the years, Disney has invested heavily in making movies based on its theme parks, the most famous of which is undoubtedly Pirates of the Caribbean. Currently, no information is available on the movie Space Mountain in, and Applebaum and Namek are currently shaping the story and the overall film.

Andre Nemak and Josh Applebaum have a history of writing screenplays for films such as Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows and Wonder Park.