Thursday, June 2, 2011

Big Thunder Mountain

I was just thinking that they haven't done anything with Frontierland in a long time. After the Pirates of the Caribbean phenomenon, why not a Big Thunder film? Something like City Slickers meets National Treasure meets the Goonies: A group of college students study a legend about a huge deposit of gold underneath a hoodoo called Big Thunder Mountain. The Apache call it Big Thunder because the hoodoo is so saturated with gold, it attracts lightning. A mining colony was built to excavate the site, but the town was lost, and so was the mountain. After one of the student finds a map marking the location, he convinces his friends to chase down the gold and make history, but they have some competition from some professional criminals. The backstory of Big Thunder involves greed, ghosts and an Apache curse.