Walt Disney World ’s original dark drive Journey Into Imagination is a cultEpcotstaple — and its star , Figment the purple firedrake , is now getting the big screen discussion . Deadline reportsthat manufacturer Seth Rogen andDetective Pikachuwriters Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit are developing the moving picture at Disney establish on the attraction .
What ’s queer is that the ride itself has had three versions , so which in peculiar will serve as the concept remains to be seen . The original 1983 ride , created by fabled Imagineers Tony Baxter and Steve Kirk , centered on a kindly Dreamfinder ’s creation of Figment out of pipe dream and ideas he catches in the sky . Figment goes on a fantastical journey to unlock the wonders of the world through imagination and his own root word song “ One Little Spark ” by the Sherman Brothers .
Journey Into Imagination was more recently update to a scenario using wacky science laboratory experiments , with Monty Python icon Eric Idle starring as a scientist who is more or less irritate by Figment ’s incessant hijacking of the ride to labor the terminus ad quem of resourcefulness . ( It must not have been too memorable of an experience for the player , whorecently forgot he was the co - headliner of the drive . ) The drawing card is like a Disney version of Martin Scorsese ’s madcap After time of day , where Figment serves as an orchestrator of madness to make you question your sanity by putting your locoweed of sight , phone and smell through his Technicolor wringer . If you ’re an grownup you ’ll be thankful you may stumble upon a drink at World Showcase within walking distance . One affair to know about Figment that makes him so endear yet frenzied is that the dragon is just a complete agent of topsy-turvyness . I sincerely hope that ’s still the Figment we get because it ’d be very on brand for Rogen , Hernandez , and Samit ( the latter yoke are set to bring us Hugh Jackman as revivify superhero Koala Man in a 2023 Hulu series ) . Cast Eric Idle as a reading of the Dreamfinder for an crazy reunion and we ’re all in .
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For very unintelligent people : When we film these thing the animated small fucker is n’t really there.https://t.co/7yn9ttzvmX
— Eric Idle ( @EricIdle)January 25 , 2021
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