Everyone has been waiting for the remake of Roald Dahl’s classic tale of the Witches – and it’s officially got a trailer and a release date! The film will premiere on the 22 October 2020 on American streaming service HBO Max and while the service isn’t available in Mzansi just yet, the film’s trailer has got us hyped up for this release!
The film stars Oscar winners Anne Hathaway (“Les Misérable,” “Ocean’s 8”) and Octavia Spencer (“The Help,” “The Shape of Water”), Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci (“The Hunger Games” films, “The Lovely Bones”), with Kristin Chenoweth (TV’s “Glee” and “BoJack Horseman”) and award-winning comedy legend Chris Rock. Newcomer Jahzir Kadeem Bruno (TV’s “Atlanta”) also stars, alongside Codie-Lei Eastick (“Holmes & Watson”).
Reimagining 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.
The Witches was originally scheduled for a theatrical release by Warner Bros. Pictures but was later pulled from the release calendar due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was later announced that it would be available to stream on HBOMax on the 22nd of October 2020 and on all other streaming services after that.
Watch the trailer here:
