Overview
- Disney has the Halloweentown project in early development for Disney Channel and Disney+ with Lily Houghton and Ryan Koehn attached to develop the screenplay.
- Reports cite the four existing Halloweentown films as having roughly 160 million hours streamed on Disney+ and say that streaming performance likely motivated the revival.
- No casting, director, production schedule, or release window has been announced and outlets say it is unclear whether legacy cast members such as Kimberly J. Brown or Sara Paxton will return.
- Houghton’s recent credits include the horror comedy Forbidden Fruits and Koehn has television writing experience including time on the Gossip Girl reboot, though those credits do not indicate the new film’s tone or schedule.
- The move follows Disney’s pattern of revisiting 1990s Halloween-era properties and would add Halloweentown to the company’s seasonal slate alongside titles like Hocus Pocus and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.