Now that production has wrapped on The Witches, Warner Bros.’ reimagining of Roald Dahl‘s beloved story for a modern audience, Bloody Disgusting has the official synopsis for the film that puts Anne Hathaway (Colossal, The Dark Knight Rises) in the shoes of the Grand High Witch.
Robert Zemeckis’s “visually innovative” The Witches tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Jahzir Kadeem Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Octavia Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. The boy and his grandmother come across some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, so Grandma wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.
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Based on the 1973 novel, Zemeckis’ version will be more rooted in the original source material, which had a much darker, franchise-beginning finale (the young boy remains a mouse and must spend his short life hunting and killing all of those registered in the Grand High Witch’s address book).
Produced and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, The Witches check in on October 16, 2020.
