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Not content with the money it made on the Pirates of the Carribbean trilogy (which, compared to its cost, might not actually have been very much), Disney recently announced a new project based on another one of its theme park icons: Tomorrowland. In what very well may be another sign of the apocalypse, it is to feature Dwayne Johnson, who has recently made a bid for legitimacy in dropping “the Rock” from all mentions of his name.

Honestly, I want to go on record and say that this could be awesome if they find the right director, and Johnson could easily pull of the right tone for a picture like this (just think the dad from Lost in Space).

That is all presuming, of course, that the talent involved is in on the joke that Tomorrowland has become, with all of the technology it presents being anachronistic to even 1960s standards, but having a silvery polish and sense of aerodynamics that apparently people thought everything in the future was going to have. If, say, the Coen brothers got a hold of this, then it could be great.

But that doesn’t look like the way the deal’s going down. In the original Variety article, the pic is billed as an epic-sized space adventure, with the writers being the guys who did Rebound (which I can’t really judge because I haven’t seen it, but I did purposefully avoid it). Plus, they’re probably not even calling it Tomorrowland. The original Variety article can be found here.

PS-That’s an actual record that I used as the image. Doesn’t it sound great? It’d probably net millions on the retro/camp black market. 

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