@INTO FRAME PRODUCTIONS

Would you believe it? On the first day, Disney‘s 1928 short  film, Steamboat Wille became the public domain, a production company called, INTO FRAME PRODUCTIONS has dropped a new trailer that surprised everybody. The film is in question called, “Mickey’s Mouse Trap” which is a horror comedy film featuring none other than Mickey Mouse as the killer.

The synopsis for this film : “It’s Alex’s 21st birthday, but she’s stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive.”

The trailer shows a person in a Mickey Mouse costume, wearing what resembles a hockey jersey without the letters, attacking a victim and stalking others inside a restaurant. 

The film was directed by Jamie Bailey, who said in a statement: “We just wanted to have fun with it all. I mean it’s Steamboat Willie’s Mickey Mouse murdering people. It’s ridiculous. We ran with it and had fun doing it and I think it shows.”

But, according to a Disney’s Spokesperson, More modern versions of Mickey will remain unaffected by the expiration of the Steamboat Willie copyright and Mickey will continue to play a leading role as a global ambassador for the Walt Disney Company in our storytelling, theme park attractions, and merchandise.” 

The 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 Filmcore’s Mem Ferda co-producing.

The film does not yet have a release date, but producers are aiming for March. It’s unclear if there is a distributor on board or what platform the producers are aiming for. 

Mickey’s Mouse Trap follows last year’s horror film, Winnie the Pooh : Blood and Honey, which was made possible after A.A. Milne’s original Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain two years ago.