The wonderful Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) has been enlisted for Robert Zemeckis’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Witches”.
The actress joins Anne Hathaway in the film, which follows a boy who stumbles upon a coven of child-hating witches he must stop — even though he has been turned into a mouse.
Dahl’s book was previously adapted for the big screen in 1990.
The screenplay hails from Zemeckis and Kenya Barris.
Via ‘THR‘