#maybe a hide and seek-esque killer family or pair of sibs

[androgynous-barbie]

(saw this late so sorry) that is literally EXACTLY what happened with Universal. They were totally on board until he said ‘and then she begins to fall for him’ 😂😂😂😂😂😂

without giving spoilers, there’s actually a plan GDT came up with that made it into the NEW haunted mansion’s final product and I hope he’s being compensated for that at least. Funny enough to me it sounded dumb as hell when GDT proposed it cuz it sounded like it made no sense but if what made it into the movie is what he meant it makes perfect sense and was executed wonderfully nope. too vague. spoilers under the cut if you care (kinda minor tho... kinda)

Del Toro’s plan was to have The Hatbox Ghost be ‘in the center of a web of interconnected haunted mansions’.... like.......... huh? like he’s the common link of a bunch of haunted mansions/houses? based on different versions of Disney Park spooky rides?  (would he be able to just leave gracey manor and go to Ravenswood manor? mystic manor too? tokyo?) in the movie we DID get, the hatbox ghost in life owned his own mansion that resembles the Florida version and then later purchased Gracey Manor 

so even tho Crump Manor (the florida-resembling one) isn’t huanted like gracey is.... the link is still there.... yeah?

(and also since the idea was executed so well, it goes to show that even when IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII doubt a plan of his, it eventually comes out perfect so SERIOUSLY studio execs, LET THE MAN HAVE HIS WAY. it benefits EVERYONE)

but yeah the web thing and ryan gosling as hattie were all we knew of his plans. i doubt there would’ve been gore and even impliiiiiied incest (but i could be wrong, who knows what he hoped he could get away with? haha) but like....... i just know in my heart that hatchets and axes would have been swung and thrown probably with reckless abandon and im DAMN sure there wouldve been a long haired, white dressed, candelabra wielding maiden in a flowy dress 😂😂😂😂 

This may be a hot take, but I consider Crimson Peak (2015) a *very* unofficial Haunted Mansion adaptation. It's by Guillermo del Toro, involves a haunted mansion infested with ghosts and twisted family history (including both variations on a murdering bride AND the Bluebeard myth), has a "corridor of doors" scene...and even has a cameo from actual Haunted Mansion wallpaper! (It's the foyer pattern, not the eyes, but still, that HAS to be deliberate!)