Director Justin Simien has shared particulars concerning the Haunted Mansion alternate ending.

Disney’s new supernatural horror film includes a star-studded ensemble solid, together with LaKeith Stanfield, Danny DeVito, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rosario Dawson, and Jared Leto. “A lady and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called religious consultants to assist rid their residence of supernatural squatters,” reads the synopsis. Stanfield portrays Ben, a tour information grieving his lifeless spouse, Alyssa.

Simien has not too long ago shared particulars to The Hollywood Reporter about alternate variations of the film, together with one the place we see the ghost model of Alyssa. “You type of see some remnants of it. There’s a dream sequence the place, for a second, we see Ben observe her by way of the home. I truly actually felt strongly that what wakes Ben up once more within the home is the potential to seek out her along with his digital camera. He’s presumably been utilizing it to seek out her, unsuccessfully, so that continues to be as a little bit of subtext on this model of the film.”

“However there actually have been some extra overt searching-for-Alyssa scenes and concepts in several types of the film. We shot a lot film. (Laughs.) There’s most likely a four-hour model of the film that no person would need to sit by way of, together with myself. It has totally different prospects of what might have occurred between Ben getting into the home and the group lastly exiting the home and deciding to return again to it on their very own. However by way of the method of simply testing it and dealing with the Disney crew, that’s not precisely the model that we ended up with.”

Though Haunted Mansion includes a traditional Disney blissful ending, Simien reveals it wasn’t all the time going to finish that manner. “The primary model of the film that I encountered had a little bit of a darker ending, one which I truly actually revered and loved, however I appropriately guessed that it perhaps wouldn’t get previous the kind of Disney machine. However as soon as we solid LaKeith, there was one thing that modified about what I personally wanted from the ending of the film.”

“Frankly, I didn’t need to see a Black man have a tragic finish in a film like this. I needed him to have hope on the finish of the film, and a tragic finish for a Black character would’ve been actually laborious to swallow, no less than for me proper now. So we went with one thing a bit extra hopeful, however there was most likely one thing to the opposite model as effectively.”

What’s the Haunted Mansion 2023 runtime?

The film is 2 hours and three minutes lengthy.