Now , here ’s an mind that will give me nightmares for class : Guillermo Del Toro is going to direct the turn back - apparent motion feature adaptation of Roald Dahl ’s wondrous novel The Witches , where a small boy gets trapped in a hotel while the annual convention of witch is taking place .
The brilliant Alfonso Cuaron ( Children of Men ) , was the original front runner for the managing director spot . But Cuaron toldEmpire Magazinehe ’s stepped up to produce the lineament , and Del Toro is now the director . Apparently the two start chatting about adjust about Dahl ’s chronicle “ Uncle Oswald ” when they got on the issue of The Witches .
“ The yoke were discussing the voltage of adapting the much naughtier red gram story Uncle Oswald , when the conversation turn to The Witches . Cuaron told us : ‘ Guillermo write this amazing screenplay really quickly . ”
Well , of course he did . I ca n’t imagine that Del Toro has even one foot in the realm of reality , which is why he can probably boil this stuff and nonsense out so tight , and so well . While I ’m uneasy that GDT is now currently calculate everything I have some form of personal interest group in , I ’m not awfully nervous . It ’s break to be stop motion , which mean it will take 10 long time to make anyways if they ’re going to create a earth of witchy animal to stand up to the likes of Del Toro ’s mind . Plus , his initials are practically GTD .
I ’m beaming they ’re not going down the hot - action path out of respect to Nicolas Roeg ’s astonishing live adaptation , but I have a fearful feeling these bald scratchy scalp witch will also leave me shaking under the dining room table .
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