Disney+ has ordered a pilot for a television series inspired by Spaceship Earth, the attraction housed inside the giant geodesic sphere that has stood at the centre of EPCOT since the Florida park opened in 1982. The pilot — a single episode made to test whether a full series gets picked up — is now in casting, according to Variety.

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." That premise travels some distance from the ride itself, which takes guests on a slow dark-ride journey through the history of human communication, spotlighting breakthroughs like the radio, the telephone and the internet.

Jason Fuchs is attached as showrunner and executive producer. Fuchs most recently co-created and co-ran the HBO Max series IT: Welcome to Derry, which aired its first season in late 2025. His other current projects include a live-action My Hero Academia feature for Netflix and Legendary, and the next Transformers film at Paramount, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Fuchs also wrote a 2013 ABC pilot called Big Thunder, based on the Big Thunder Mountain ride — so this is not his first time turning a park attraction into a script.

Michael Waldron is executive producing through his Anomaly Pictures banner. Waldron developed the Disney+ Marvel series Loki, wrote the screenplay for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and co-wrote the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. He also co-created the Hulu series Chad Powers starring Glen Powell.

Lee Toland Krieger will executive produce and direct the pilot. Adam Fishbach, who previously worked with Fuchs on the 2024 feature Argylle, is also an executive producer, as is Adam Fasullo of Anomaly Pictures. The pilot is set up at 20th Television, where both Anomaly Pictures and Fishbach hold overall deals — meaning the studio pays them to develop projects exclusively for its pipeline.

Disney has a long, mixed record of adapting theme park rides for screen. The Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise is the standout success; two Haunted Mansion movies (2003 and 2023), 2021's Jungle Cruise and 2015's Tomorrowland round out the list. Whether Spaceship Earth joins the hit column or the scrapheap depends on the pilot — and on whether Disney+ decides to send it to series.

For now, the sphere keeps drawing tourists in Florida. A writers' room, a crew, and a cast of teenage time-travellers may or may not follow.