So, how popular it was WandaVision? Weeks after the show paid homage to the classic ’60s sitcom Bewitched, Bewitched is being remade by Hollywood. Again.
Deadline broke the news of the Sony Pictures project, which is being written by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, the team behind the TV remakes of MacGyver and 12 monkeys. The story of a witch named Samantha, who marries a normal man named Darrin, was shown on TV from 1964 to 1972 and gained prominenceeen treatment in 2005 with an absolute dream team; starred Will Ferrell, Nicole Kidman, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Steve Carell and more, and it was directed and co-written by Nora Ephron. This take was more objective, however, Ferrell’s character was starring in a reboot of Hexagon, on restarting Bewitched. The result was a box office and a critical disappointment.
This version, however, is supposed to be more faithful to the show. More about Samantha hiding her powers from everyone in modern America, with added backstory and more.
It is possible for a new Bewitched to work? It is clear. With the script, the director, the right cast, anything is possible. And yet, a remake of a show that has already been remade and recently parodied seems somehow … less than charming. Not to mention this has already been tried also.
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