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Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 movie based on the Ray Bradbury novel, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce. Directed by Jack Clayton for Walt Disney Pictures, from a screenplay written by Bradbury himself, the movie suffered from offscreen conflicts of vision. Although the 1980s Disney company was trying to grow beyond "kiddie fare" and make more complex and mature PG-rated movies, they struggled against the creepy and sometimes gruesome nature of the chosen story.

Bradbury recommended Clayton to be the director, having known him since they both worked on the movie Moby Dick
in 1953-1954, and again on an unproduced adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes at Paramount in 1977. But the two became estranged when Clayton had writer John Mortimer do an uncredited revision of Bradbury's screenplay.

After a bad preview showing of the film, Bradbury wrote narration and a new ending, and Disney spent an additional US$5 million on refilming, re-editing, and rescoring the picture. He later called it "not a great film, no, but a decently nice one."

Cast

Jason Robards
as Charles Halloway
Jonathan Pryce
as Mr. Dark
Diane Ladd
as Mrs. Nightshade
Royal Dano
as Tom Fury
Pam Grier
as the Dust Witch

Remake

Disney apparently is interested in making a remake of this film with Walden Media, although whether or not this will occur is questionable at the present time.

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