In the original film, released in 1990, a young boy discovers witches are real and they hate children most of all.
Anjelica Huston famously portrayed the Grand High Witch, the leader of all earthly witches, and now Hathaway will succeed the actress in the latest cinematic retelling of Dahl’s 1973 novel.
Zemeckis will direct and write the film, which he’ll also produce with Jack Rapke, Guillermo Del Toro, and Alfonso Cuaron.
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Huston previously told EWthat director Nicolas Roeg “made the ultimateWitches” with the first movie, butit’s apparently not a sentiment Dahl shared.
According toVariety, which was the first to report the news of Hathaway’s casting, Zemeckis' take onThe Witcheswill skew closer to the source material.
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