Oscar winner Patricia Arquette has signed on to voice a witch in Troll: The Rise of Harry Potter, Jr., an animated revival of the 1986 cult classic horror film Troll, writes TheWrap in a shocker of a story.
John Carl Buechler, the writer and director of the original film, has agreed to co-produce the full-length 3D animated feature film along with Peter Davy.
Newcomer Baxter Barlett will be the voice of young Harry Potter, Jr., a character previously played by Noah Hathaway.
The project announcement stressed, “Harry Potter and Harry Potter, Jr. and his family were characters in the 1986 motion picture Troll, which was independently created and distributed 11 years before J.K. Rowling’s first “Harry Potter” book was written and published.”
Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, June Lockhart and Julia Louis-Dreyfus co-starred in the critically panned horror movie about wicked troll king invading a San Francisco apartment complex in search of a mystical ring that will return him to human form.
The new animated feature will revisit the magical world of the original with Harry Potter, Jr. turning to a magical witch to help him save the planet from the clutches of the troll wizard and his evil force, adds the site.
Plans are underway to lock in the remainder of the voice cast, and Davy noted producers are “already in pre-production.”
