The Witches - Roald Dahl be shaking

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In "why do they keep remaking things" news heres the leaked poster for The Witches. It is a remake of the Anjelica Huston film. Starring Anne Hathaway as the grand high witch, and Octavia Spencer as.....the grandmother for some reason.
 

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all I can say is if they don’t fuck up the ending and make it a stupid happy ending again maybe it won’t be so bad.
Unironically this.

The original ending was top tier and I doubt it will be topped, but if they can at least attempt it, I will most likely be satisfied, doesn't mean that the rest of the show won't be fucking garbage lol.
 

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the tagline is WITCHES ARE REAL because they know this is appealing to tumblr witches in the same way an MLP movie would probably tagline itself PONIES ARE REAL. they know they don't need subtlety to make money off their target audience.
Maybe it’s planned to be a Halloween release?

It’s a bad move for that kind of audience in any case though since the witches are evil, to quote the New Yorker:
In the nineteen-eighties, feminists lambasted Dahl for his supposed misogyny, focussing on “The Witches” (1983). In 1985, one critic called the book “a dangerous publication,” which bore a “striking similarity” to the “misogynistic” fifteenth-century witch-hunting text “Malleus Maleficarum.” It was a bizarre comparison. Dahl does write in “The Witches” that a “witch is always a woman”—but not that a woman is always a witch. The strongest, most appealing character in the book is the boy narrator’s cigar-smoking, tough-minded, and immensely loving grandmother.

Matilda would have been a safer option if they wanted to appeal to the woke crowd, not that there’s any money in doing so.
 

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Yeah as a nerd who had enjoyed the book before there was a movie there were certainly flaws in the movie, but book->movie is cruise control for flaws.
I can't assume this version will be any better.
 

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It was alright. They actually kept the book ending but added something batshit on top of it and some wokeness.
 

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No comment on the movie but regarding this thread's sub-title, Roald Dahl didn't like the original film adaptation. From memory but he said they'd made it into a horror film for kids and thought the effects were far too scary and upsetting for children.

It was all based on his drawings, sure. But there's a world of difference between this:
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and these:
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No comment on the movie but regarding this thread's sub-title, Roald Dahl didn't like the original film adaptation. From memory but he said they'd made it into a horror film for kids and thought the effects were far too scary and upsetting for children.

It was all based on his drawings, sure. But there's a world of difference between this:
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and these:
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If I even start to jerk my body around like I just drank potion #86 my wife freaks out.
 

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No comment on the movie but regarding this thread's sub-title, Roald Dahl didn't like the original film adaptation. From memory but he said they'd made it into a horror film for kids and thought the effects were far too scary and upsetting for children.

It was all based on his drawings, sure. But there's a world of difference between this:
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and these:
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I thought he was just mad about how they changed the ending.
 
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