Movie
witches
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock, Anne Hathaway, Angus Wright, Jahzir Bruno, Octavia Spencer, Codie-Lei Eastick, Joseph Zinyemba, Charles Edwards, Simon Manyonda, Morgana Robinson, Anna Devlin, Jon Prophet, Eugenia Caruso, Philippe Spall
New adaptation of the children’s classic The Witches by Roald Dahl based on the 1990 film directed by Nicolas Roeg. The setting takes us to the end of 1967, when a young man (newcomer Jahzir Kadeem Bruno, TV’s “Atlanta”), orphaned, is forced to move to Demopolis, a small country town in Alabama. Here he lives with his grandmother (Octavia Spencer), with whom he has an excellent relationship. By chance, the two meet a group of elegant-looking women and, thanks to Nona’s ability to read some clues, discover that they are in fact witches. To protect her grandson, the grandmother decides to spend a few days in a nearby seaside resort. Apparently they don’t know that the place is the same one chosen by the Witch Chief (Anne Hathaway) to gather with her colleagues from different parts of the world for a gathering. The purpose of the conference is to implement a diabolical plan…
The screenplay, based on the book by Roald Dahl (over 300 million copies sold, translated into 41 different languages worldwide) is by Robert Zemeckis and Kenya Barris (the “black” TV series “Shaft”) and the Oscar for Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”). The film is self-produced by Zemeckis, along with Jack Rapke, del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Luke Kelly; Jacqueline Levine, Marianne Jenkins, Michael Siegel, Gideon Simeloff and Cate Adams will executive produce.
The behind-the-scenes creative team at Zemeckis includes a list of their frequent collaborators, including Oscar-nominated cinematographer Don Burgess (“Forrest Gump”), production designer Gary Freeman, editors Jeremiah O’Driscoll and Ryan Chan, Oscar-nominated costume designer Joanna Johnston (“Allied in Hidden Shadow,” “Lincoln”) and Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri (“Polar Express,” “Forrest Gump”).
The cast includes Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci (Hunger Games, The Lovely Bones), Kristin Chenoweth (Glee, BoJack Horseman), Codie-Lei Eastick (Holmes & Watson), and comedians Chris Rock.