The First Day the 1928 Disney short, The steamboat Williehit the public domain, the trailer for a horror comedy featuring none other than baby mouse like the killer.
Now, anyone can do pretty much anything they want with Mickey Mouse, as long as they’re dressed in black and white and don’t do any modern-day Mickey Mouse activities.
The synopsis of the film, titled Mickey’s Mousetrapsays: “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck in the arcade on night shift, so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game she has to survive” .
The trailer features, yes, a person dressed as Mickey Mouse, wearing what looks like a letterless hockey jersey, attacking a victim and stalking others within some type of location. Five Nights at Freddy’s. There is also a reference to he shouted about the horror genre, including one character predicting that another will be killed because he says, “I’ll be right back.”
An image of “Mickey’s Mousetrap”. press photo“Well, he’s dead. If he were in a horror movie, you’d never say, ‘I’ll be right back,’ because then… you wouldn’t say it,” he explains.
The trailer also includes the words: “A place to have fun, a place for friends, a place to hunt. The mouse is out.”
“We just wanted to have fun”
The film was directed by Jamie Bailey, who said in a statement: “We just wanted to have fun. I mean, it’s the Mickey Mouse of The steamboat Willie killing people IS ridiculous. “We had fun doing it and I think it shows.”
The characters find an old projector that makes noise and beeps The steamboat Willie and there’s a poster of The steamboat Willie on the wall. The trailer post on actor Simon Phillips’ YouTube page reads: “This film uses public domain only The steamboat Willie Baby mouse”.
Mickey Mouse in “Steamboat Willie”, 1928The film stars Sophie McIntosh, Callum Sywyk, Allegra Nocita, Ben Harris, Damir Kovic, Mackenzie Mills, Nick Biskupek and Simon Phillips and was produced by Paul Whitney, Mark Popejoy, Alexander Gausman and Andrew Agopsowicz, with co-production by Mem Ferda by Filmcore.
The film doesn’t have a release date yet, but the producers are aiming for March. It’s unclear whether there is a distributor on board or which platform the manufacturers are targeting.
Mickey’s Mousetrap follow up on last year’s horror film Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, made possible after Milne’s original Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain two years ago. This year, Tigger, Pooh’s friend, also enters the public domain.
But it won’t be the only horror film with the mouse as the protagonist, as we already announced days ago. Director Steven Lamorte will begin production on his horror film in March, and it will follow a sadistic rat who torments a group of unsuspecting ferry passengers named none other than Steamboat Willie.
Clearly, neither horror film is coming to Disney+.
Source: Clarin