The Witches (2020)
Coming Out at October 22, 2020 on HBO MAX
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Zemeckis reimagines Dahl’s beloved story for a modern audience. Zemeckis’s visually innovative film tells the darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy (Bruno) who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma (Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks our young hero away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe—undercover—to carry out her nefarious plans.
Based on the book by Roald Dahl, the screenplay is by Robert Zemeckis & Kenya Barris and Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro. Zemeckis is also producing, alongside Jack Rapke, del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón and Luke Kelly. Serving as executive producers are Jacqueline Levine, Marianne Jenkins, Michael Siegel, Gideon Simeloff and Cate Adams.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Robert Zemeckis (screenplay), Roald Dahl (novel), Kenya Barris (screenplay), Allan Scott (based on the 1990 film “The Witches” screenplay), Guillermo del Toro (screenplay)
Stars: Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock, Codie-Lei Eastick, Charles Edwards, Morgana Robinson
►Cast
| Anne Hathaway | → | Grand High Witch |
| Octavia Spencer | → | Grandmother |
| Stanley Tucci | → | Mr. Stringer |
| Chris Rock | → | |
| Codie-Lei Eastick | → | Bruno Jenkins |
| Charles Edwards | → | Mr. Jenkins |
| Morgana Robinson | → | Mrs. Jenkins |
| Jahzir Bruno | → | |
| Eugenia Caruso | → | Consuella |
| Simon Manyonda | → | Sous Chef |
| Jonathan Livingstone | → | Raymond |
| Philippe Spall | → | |
| Zeke Taylor | → | Danny Wests |
| Eurydice El-Etr | → | Samantha |
| Anna Devlin | → | |
| Paul Leonard | → | Maitre’D – Luther |
| Jon Prophet | → | Officer Perry |
| Abi Adeyemi | → | Candy Witch |
| Miranda Sarfo Peprah | → | Young Grandma |
| Angus Wright | → | Waiter |
| Orla O’Rourke | → | Soairse |
| Joseph Zinyemba | → | Basketball Kid |
| Katie Hardwick | → | Scandinavian Flying Witch |
| Me’sha Bryan | → | Chambermaid |
| Anastasia Zabarchuk | → | Versatile Witch |
| Kristin Chenoweth | → | |
| Jimmy Star | → | Waiter |
| Kenny-Lee Mbanefo | → | Restaurant Cook |
| Debbie Bridge | → | Scary Smile Witch |
| Van Hu | → | Witch |
| Amber Flanagan | → | Esmerelda |
| Rachel Sophia-Anthony | → | Shop customer |