Del Toro and Cuaron team up for Witches.

Awesome. On of Dahl's greatest books. Definitely deserves another adaptation after the **** up they released in 1990.

 

The orignal one scared me as a kid dam scanky woman with wigs

 

ANother Remake UGH

 

The witches deserves to have a good adaption.

 

To this day, I fear Angelica Huston. How was the original movie different from the book? I've never read it?

 

Spoiler

I guess Luke never became human again in the book, as Dahl hated the film's ending for that reason.

 

The witches is a go!!!

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/12/01/del-toro-to-remake-the-witches/

This has just become one of my most highly anticipated upcoming films. I think this is going to be fantastic!

 

yea i remember there was an older movie about this, i think i saw part of it as it a kid, but can't remember...i don't think is was any good anyways...Great Del Toro is doing it, it seems to be up his ally.

 

Not nearly as good as the book, though I remember being pretty freaked by the other one as a 4 year old. But I completely agree, Del Toro will be perfect. And that they are doing it in stop motion is really exciting.

 

I liked the movie as a kid and a stop motion take sounds ineresting, especially with Del Toro and Cuaron on board..

Personally I wouldn't mind a live action 'The Twits' film with Depp and Bonham Carter as The Twits as well as a stop motion Enormous Crocodile.

 

The original movie was awesome for what it was but hey if this is good I will see it.

 

Ok, is Del Toro booked through 2030 or something?

 

Yeah, that's true. [BLACKOUT]In the book Luke and his grandma become bonafide Witch- hunters and they cruise the earth to kill 'em all.[/BLACKOUT] In the movie a good witch or something makes Luke human again, which is extremely dumb since Dahl pretty much establishes the Witches as the ultimate incarnation as evil.

Oh hell yeah.

 

Nice to see a remake in the hands of the right people for a change.

 

I wish that they would do other books, besides the Witches. Like The Phantom Tollbooth.

 

Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes. Though maybe not with Depp and Bonham Carter.

 

I wish more Dahl books would make decent transitions to the big screen. The only one I have ever really liked was the musical Willy Wonka, and Dahl didn't even like that one.

I would love love love to see the BFG as a CGI or animated movie. I think the story really lends itself to the medium.

 

Same here.

I think Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an excellent adaptation, a nice mixture of stuff from the book and new ideas and still with that Dahl feeling.

And don't forget the upcoming film of The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson. Dying to see how that turns out, haven't read the book in ages though...

Yeah, that's a perfect one for a film. David Kelly for the Giant I say.

 

I'm all for this remake. I love the original, but it was missing several great things from the book. And it was a little too campy in some scenes.

It will be hard to top Anjelica Huston, though. She was perfectly cast as the Grand High Witch.

 

I gotta agree, the original is pretty cool, especially the Witch make-up and the Jim Henson mice, but like you said, misses alot of great stuff.

I can already imagine the final shot of this remake. A slow-motion shot of a crooked old granny with a shotgun and a tiny white mouse on her shoulder while a Witch castle (or something like that) explodes in the background. Ofcourse, there's nothing like that in the book, but that's how I'd end the movie.

 

Me too.

 

Isn't that one going to be stop motion as well?

 

Yes it is.

 

Yeah, and it's voiced by George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray and maybe some more Anderson regulars (IMDB lists Jason Schwartzman and Anjelica Huston, but I don't know if that's true. since it's IMDB) So it should be sweet.