Spaceship Earth. When you think about what is one of the most iconic rides (and icons) in Disney World, we bet you’re not just hearing Dame Judi Dench’s narration in your head, but you’re probably also envisioning all the scenes in the ride that tell the history of communication on Earth. And you’re certainly envisioning that giant golfball-shaped architecture.

Spaceship Earth

Now, for a while, Spaceship Earth was due to get a big update during the big EPCOT transformation, but 2020 happened, so the update didn’t happen. But you know what did happen? According to The Hollywood Reporter, Spaceship Earth will get a TV series… Yep, the ride is getting a TV show before it gets an update. Let’s talk about it.

Disney’s streaming service, Disney+, has ordered a pilot episode for Spaceship Earth, a TV show based on the classic opening day EPCOT ride. And you may be wondering, how on EARTH is someone is going to pull that off? Well, the premise of the show actually sounds kinda’ cool: it will tap into the basic idea of the ride and be about time travel. The description reads: “When a mission to avert an imminent global cataclysm goes awry, a small band of teenagers from Earth’s past and future must join forces to confront a threat as vast and mysterious as time itself.” That actually sounds kinda…fun?

Inside Spaceship Earth

Jason Fuchs (IT: Welcome to Derry) and Michael Waldron (Avengers: Doomsday, Loki) are writing the pilot, with Fuchs serving as showrunner. He’ll also produce via his FiveTen Productions, along with his wife, Alexandra Fuchs. The show’s other executive producers are Lee Toland Krieger (You, Riverdale), Adam Fishbach (Love, Victor), and Adam Fasullo (Waldron’s Anomaly Pictures partner). Sounds like a pretty solid lineup so far.

Spaceship Earth

Note that just because a pilot is ordered does not mean the show will go to series, but if it does, it will join Disney’s other live-action franchises based on rides, including Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrowland, Jungle Cruise, and Haunted Mansion.

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Fuchs previously wrote a pilot for ABC in 2013 for a show based on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and that series never saw the light of day, but at the moment, he’s writing for some other big projects, including a live-action My Hero Academia for Netflix and the next Transformers movie at Paramount.

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