Academy Award winners Alfonso Cuaron (The Revenant, Gravity) and Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan’s Labyrinth) will produce as well, with del Toro having previously been attached to direct.
Oscar winner Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables, Ocean’s 8, Serenity) will be starring in Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches adaptation for Warner Bros. Pictures as the Grand High Witch, Variety has confirmed.
The Witches was previously adapted into a film in 1990 from director Nicolas Roeg and starring Anjelica Huston, Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, and Rowan Atkinson.
Zemeckis will also pen the script for the adaptation and will produce with partner Jack Rapke, having previously collaborated on a number of films together.