Disney+ Orders 'Spaceship Earth' Pilot From Loki Writer
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- Disney+ handed a pilot order to 'Spaceship Earth,' a series co-written by Jason Fuchs and Michael Waldron and produced by 20th Television, inspired by the EPCOT attraction housed inside Walt Disney World's geodesic sphere since 1982.
- Jason Fuchs serves as executive producer and showrunner; he most recently co-created HBO's 'IT: Welcome To Derry' and is currently writing Netflix/Legendary's live-action My Hero Academia and a new Transformers script for Paramount and Hasbro.
- Michael Waldron executive produces via Anomaly Pictures; he created and head-wrote Marvel's 'Loki' for Disney+, wrote 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,' and is co-writing 'Avengers: Doomsday,' which hits theaters December 2026.
- Lee Toland Krieger directs and executive produces the pilot alongside Adam Fishbach and Adam Fasullo; he recently wrapped the Netflix feature 'Picture It,' starring Millie Bobby Brown and Gabriel LaBelle.
- The series premise follows a small band of teenagers from Earth's past and future who must join forces after a mission to avert an imminent global cataclysm goes awry, confronting a threat 'as vast and mysterious as time itself.'
- The Spaceship Earth ride is a 15-minute time-machine-themed experience demonstrating how advancements in human communication shaped the future, located inside the geodesic sphere at EPCOT in Bay Lake, Florida.
Why it matters: Disney is pulling a writer with direct ties to two of its biggest upcoming bets — 'Loki' on Disney+ and 'Avengers: Doomsday' (December 2026) — onto a theme-park IP adaptation, deepening its strategy of converting park attractions into streaming franchises.
