Flight and Back to the Future’s Robert Zemeckis is currently in the final stages of negotiations with Warner Bros. to take the helm of the newest adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches.
Zemeckis would also pen the script, Guillermo del Toro had previously been in line to direct the film but had to step down due to scheduling conflicts. Del Toro will now produce alongside Alfonso Cuaron and Zemeckis’s ImageMovers partner, Jack Rapke.
Based on the 1973 novel, the film follows a seven-year-old boy who has a run in with real-life witches. Warner Bros. had previously adapted the book in 1990 with Anjelica Huston playing one of the title characters, but sources close to the project say Zemeckis’ version will be more rooted in the original source material, while the Huston pic was a loose adaptation.
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Zemeckis would also pen the script, Guillermo del Toro had previously been in line to direct the film but had to step down due to scheduling conflicts. Del Toro will now produce alongside Alfonso Cuaron and Zemeckis’s ImageMovers partner, Jack Rapke.
Based on the 1973 novel, the film follows a seven-year-old boy who has a run in with real-life witches. Warner Bros. had previously adapted the book in 1990 with Anjelica Huston playing one of the title characters, but sources close to the project say Zemeckis’ version will be more rooted in the original source material, while the Huston pic was a loose adaptation.
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- 6/20/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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