‘Spaceship Earth’ Series Based on EPCOT Ride in the Works at Disney+

Jason Fuchs and EPCOT's Spaceship Earth attraction. Matt Doyle; Joseph Prezioso/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Logo text

One of the longest-running attractions at Disney’s EPCOT could be making its way to TV screens.

Disney+ has ordered a pilot for Spaceship Earth, based on the EPCOT ride that has been in place (with periodic updates) since the park opened in 1982. IT: Welcome to Derry co-showrunner Jason Fuchs is writing the pilot and will serve as showrunner. He executive produces with Michael Waldron (Avengers: Doomsday, Loki), director Lee Toland Krieger (You, Riverdale), Adam Fishbach (Love, Victor) and Waldron’s Anomaly Pictures partner Adam Fasullo.

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Fuchs and Fishbach previously worked together on the 2024 feature Argylle, which Fuchs wrote and produced and Fishbach exec produced.

The Spaceship Earth pilot will use the ride’s premise of traveling through time to track humankind’s progress as a jumping-off point. The logline 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.”

Should it go to series, Spaceship Earth will be the latest Disney project based on one of its theme park attractions. The most successful of those is the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise; others include two Haunted Mansion movies (2003 and 2023), 2021’s Jungle Cruise and 2015’s Tomorrowland.

Fuchs also has some experience in the theme park-adaptation realm: He wrote a pilot for ABC in 2013 titled Big Thunder, based on the Big Thunder Mountain ride at Disney parks. In addition to Spaceship Earth, he is also writing a live-action feature adaptation of My Hero Academia for Netflix and Legendary and the next Transformers film at Paramount.

Fuchs is repped by WME and Goodman Genow. Waldron is with CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Shenkman Law. Krieger is repped by UTA and Davis Law Group.