From left: Stanley Tucci, Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer star in director Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Roald Dahl's "The Witches." (COURTESY OF HBO MAX)
Remakes are tricky business. When a remake adds something new or improves upon aspects of the previous incarnation, the new version justifies its existence. If the film is also based on a book that also leaves room for variation, particularly if the previous adaptation altered certain details.
This is the case with Robert Zemeckis’ new version of author Roald Dahl’s “The Witches,” which was previously made in 1990 starring Anjelica Huston as the Grand High Witch who plots to unite the witches of the world in a scheme to turn all children into mice. In this new version, it is Anne Hathaway as the children-loathing hag.
From left: Stanley Tucci, Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer star in director Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of Roald Dahl's "The Witches." (COURTESY OF HBO MAX)
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