Disney+ Orders Spaceship Earth Pilot Based on EPCOT Ride
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- Disney+ ordered a pilot for "Spaceship Earth," a series inspired by the EPCOT attraction, from 20th Television.
- Jason Fuchs co-wrote the series with Michael Waldron; Fuchs serves as showrunner and executive producer, while Waldron executive produces via his Anomaly Pictures banner.
- The show's premise: when a mission to avert a global cataclysm goes awry, a small band of teenagers from Earth's past and future must join forces against a threat spanning time itself.
- Lee Toland Krieger (You, Riverdale, Shadow & Bone) directs and executive produces the pilot, alongside Adam Fishbach (via Fishbach Productions) and Adam Fasullo.
- The Spaceship Earth ride is housed in the geodesic sphere at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, has been EPCOT's symbolic structure since the park opened in 1982, and is a 15-minute time machine-themed experience tracing advances in human communication.
- Waldron created and head-wrote Marvel's Loki and wrote Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness; he is co-writing Avengers: Doomsday, which hits theaters in December 2026.
- Fuchs most recently co-created and co-showran HBO's IT: Welcome To Derry, is writing a live-action My Hero Academia feature for Netflix and Legendary, and is penning the new Transformers script for Paramount and Hasbro.
Why it matters: Disney+ is extending a theme park attraction into a streaming series, with the pilot pairing proven genre writers Fuchs and Waldron. The show's sci-fi cataclysm premise diverges sharply from the actual ride's educational focus on human communication — the geodesic sphere is being sold as a visual hook rather than a thematic one. For EPCOT fans, the series takes substantial creative liberties with the source material.
