George and Amal visit Disneyland after 20-years for 'Tomorrowland' premier

“It’s a lot of fun to premiere it here,” Clooney said as he paused on the long blue carpet at the AMC Downtown Disney 12. The cast and creators of the anticipated film joined Clooney for a trip down the carpet and for a special film screening that was followed by an afterparty.

Tomorrowland was created by Walt Disney as a section of Disneyland in 1955. It was a time when Americans imagined an optimistic future. Over the years, particularly in the 1970s, the public’s view of the future started to grow dark. This shift intrigued writer/producer Damon Lindelof, so when he began to synthesize the story for 'Tomorrowland', he looked for what Tomorrowland meant and how it could be represented in a storyline. “I really wanted to recapture that earlier optimism,” comments Lindelof.

Then Lindelof heard about a box that had been discovered accidentally in a closet at the Disney Studios. The mystery box contained all sorts of fascinating models and blueprints, photographs and letters related to the inception of Tomorrowland and the 1964 World’s Fair. Lindelof was excited by the find and recalls, “I began to imagine that the contents of the box were a guide to a secret story that nobody knew. But if so, what would that story be? And the most obvious answer to me was that there really was a place called Tomorrowland that was not a theme park but existed somewhere in the real world.”

This idea became the jumping-off point for the story of “Tomorrowland,” which Lindelof would later develop with director/producer Brad Bird and executive producer Jeff Jensen.

Summing up what he wants audiences to take away from “Tomorrowland” director Brad Bird says, “We hope audiences will be entertained but with luck we’ve also made something that will give them something to talk and think about later…maybe even start to imagine a different kind of future.”