Robert Zemeckis to Tackle Roald Dahl’s ‘The Witches’ for Warner Bros.

Back in 1990, Nicolas Roeg directed an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Witches, a children's dark fantasy tale about an orphaned boy who discovers that witches do indeed exist in his world. The Jim Henson Company production earned a BAFTA nomination for Christine Beveridge's horrifyingly fantastic make-up work which transformed Anjelica Huston into the Grand High Witch. Roeg's version changed quite a bit from Dahl's 1983 tome, but the story will get another shot at the big screen now that Robert Zemeckis is about to sign on as writer and director for Warner Bros. …

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