Pictures’ fantasy adventure “THE WITCHES,” a Warner Bros. Pictures The three mice, Bruno, Daisy and Hero Boy in Warner Bros. Pictures ANNE HATHAWAY as Grand High Witch in Warner Bros. Photo by Daniel Smith ANNE HATHAWAY as Grand High Witch and STANLEY TUCCI as Mr. Pictures’ fantasy adventure “ROALD DAHL’S THE WITCHES,” a Warner Bros. Pictures JAHZIR BRUNO as Hero Boy and OCTAVIA SPENCER as Grandma and STANLEY TUCCI as Mr. Stringer and OCTAVIA SPENCER as Grandma in Warner Bros. Pictures OCTAVIA SPENCER as Grandma in Warner Bros. JAHZIR BRUNO as Hero Boy and OCTAVIA SPENCER as Grandma in Warner Bros. This marks one of the very first exclusive films on the new streaming site that launched in late May of this year. This adaptation of Witches will stand alongside an audio reading, a stage play, a radio dramatization, an opera, and a 1990 film with Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson. The film will be released exclusively on HBO Max on October 22nd, just in time for Halloween.
The film also stars Stanley Tucci as a hotel manager unwittingly hosting the witches’ convention, Kristin Chenoweth, and Chris Rock as the adult narration of Bruno’s young boy. With the help of his tough-but-loving grandmother ( Octavia Spencer), they must try to stop their evil plan to turn all the world’s children into mice. also handling international distribution.Roald Dahl’s The Witches spins a yarn about a young boy ( Jahzir Bruno) who stumbles on a secret coven of witches led by the sly and menacing Grand High Witch ( Anne Hathaway). In addition to del Toro and Cuarón, the film is a Warner Bros. Though talks of this remake circled in late 2008, with del Toro expressing interest, it wasn’t until June 2018 that development began, and del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Roma) were attached to produce.
The screenplay was written by Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth) and Kenya Barris (TV’s Black-ish). This new version is directed by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump) and stars Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures), Kristin Chenoweth (Broadway’s Wicked), Chris Rock (Grown Ups), and reunites ‘ The Devil Wears Prada’ co-stars Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) and Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones). It was the final film that Jim Henson personally worked on before his death, the final theatrical film produced by Lorimar Productions, and the last film made based on Dahls material before his death (both Henson and Dahl died that year). It was previously adapted in 1990, directed by Nicolas Roeg, produced by Jim Henson, and starred Anjelica Huston. The Witches was adapted from the childrens book of the same title by British author Roald Dahl. The boy–who is never officially named–gets turned into a mouse himself, and must enlist his grandmother’s help to stop the witches. ‘The Witches’ is a classic, well-loved tale from Roald Dahl about a boy who encounters a coven of witches with the intent of eradicating children by turning them into mice. After being scheduled for October 9, then October 16, and then being pulled from the schedule completely, the film is making its way to home theaters just in time for Halloween. Good news for fans of Roald Dahl, spooky season, HBO, or this stellar cast: ‘The Witches’ is coming, and so are the witches.