Within the wake of the 1928 animated brief Steamboat Willie getting into the general public area, horror film Screamboat is headed our technique to twist the story right into a horror film nightmare, with David Howard Thornton (Terrifier franchise’s Artwork the Clown) enjoying the killer Steamboat Willie.
Iconic Occasions Releasing is bringing Screamboat to the massive display screen in April 2025, and Selection shares the very first picture of David Howard Thornton as Steamboat Willie as we speak (above).
“I’m so excited to share our mischievous monster mouse with the world. Screamboat is my approach of paying homage to Disney whereas placing a sinister, but comedic twist on the traditional,” writer-director Steven LaMorte mentioned in a press release to the outlet. “Watching David Howard Thornton convey Steamboat Willie to life with the magicians at Quantum Creation FX has been nothing in need of wonderful — he’s hilarious and murderously entertaining. I can’t anticipate audiences to fulfill Willie and expertise the chaos we’ve created.”
Screamboat follows a bunch of New Yorkers on a late-night ferry trip that turns lethal when a mischievous mouse begins a rampage, concentrating on unsuspecting passengers.
The unlikely crew should band collectively to thwart the murderous menace earlier than their stress-free commute turns right into a nightmare.
Tyler Posey (“Teen Wolf”) and Kailey Hyman (Damien Leone’s Terrifier 2) additionally star, with Brian Quinn (“Impractical Jokers”) and Joe DeRosa showing in cameo roles.
Director Steven LaMorte guarantees that the movie’s model of Steamboat Willie is “a one hundred pc in-camera sensible creature,” with each a puppet and a fancy dress getting used.
The solid additionally consists of Allison Pittel (“Stream”), Amy Schumacher (“The Imply One”), Jesse Posey (“Teen Wolf”), Jesse Kove (“Cobra Kai”), Rumi C Jean-Louis (“Hightown”) in addition to Jarlath Conroy (Romero’s “Day of the Lifeless”) and Charles Edwin Powell (“The Exorcist III”).
Christian Beckman‘s Quantum Creation FX, Inc. (The Final Voyage of the Demeter, The E book of Boba Fett) is creating the creature from designs by idea artist Christian Cordella (Avatar: The Manner of Water, Spider-Man: No Manner Residence).
Produced by Amy Schumacher, Martine Melloul, and Steven LaMorte (the staff behind The Imply One) in collaboration with horror heavyweights Steven Della Salla and Michael Leavy (Terrifier 2, Terrifer 3, Stream), the movie guarantees a hilariously horrific twist on Disney’s mascot.
Steamboat Willie was after all the brief movie that launched Mickey Mouse to the world.
