LOS ANGELES – "Captain EO" is moonwalking back to Disneyland.
The theme park announced plans Friday to get back the 3-D sci-fi film starring Michael Jackson next February, above 23 years after the attraction debuted in Anaheim, Calif. The 17-minute film starred the late King of Pop as a singing-and-dancing intergalactic commander. This 17-minute film wad directed by Francis Ford Coppola and executive produced by George Lucas.
In the film, Michael Jackson leads a goofy alien and robot crew as they battle a wicked queen played by Anjelica Huston. "Captain EO" originally opened in Disneyland's Tommorrowland in the year 1986 and ran for more than a decade. Identical versions later opened at other Disney theme parks. They were all closed by 1998.
Michael Jackson died June 25 at age 50.
The theme park announced plans Friday to get back the 3-D sci-fi film starring Michael Jackson next February, above 23 years after the attraction debuted in Anaheim, Calif. The 17-minute film starred the late King of Pop as a singing-and-dancing intergalactic commander. This 17-minute film wad directed by Francis Ford Coppola and executive produced by George Lucas.
In the film, Michael Jackson leads a goofy alien and robot crew as they battle a wicked queen played by Anjelica Huston. "Captain EO" originally opened in Disneyland's Tommorrowland in the year 1986 and ran for more than a decade. Identical versions later opened at other Disney theme parks. They were all closed by 1998.
Michael Jackson died June 25 at age 50.
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