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Something Wicked This Way Comes (film)

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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Directed byJack Clayton
Written byRay Bradbury,
John Mortimer (uncredited)
Produced byPeter Douglas
StarringJason Robards,
Jonathan Pryce
Distributed byWalt Disney Pictures
Release date
1983
Running time
95 min.
LanguageEnglish

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.[1]

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."[2]

Cast

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. [citation needed]


Triva

  • Tiny Toons Adventures has Buster; Babs and Plucky Duck episode which is a cartoon parody of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Plucky plays the fool and Buster and Babs have to rescue him from the evil ringmaster-who gets his comupance (comeupance?) in the end.

References

  1. ^ Weller, Sam (2005). The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury. New York: William Morrow. pp. 306–309. ISBN 0-06-054581-X.
  2. ^ Bradbury, Ray (2005). Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars. New York: William Morrow. p. 10. ISBN 0-06-058568-4.


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