Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' will hit the big screen in a new adaptation
The latest from Anne Hathaway - 'The Hustle' sees her team up with Rebel Wilson. The two actress play a pair of con artists - one high class, one low rent - who are looking to get back on the dirty rotten men they encounter.
We spoke to Anne Hathaway about the film and how her career so far has led up to this movie.
The actress also talked about the charming Michael Caine (who starred in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', which 'The Hustle' is a female-led reboot of) and why she is consistently drawn back to comedy.
The Academy Award winner also talked 'The Witches'.
Based on Roald Dahl's children's classic, 'The Witches previously hit the big screen in a 1990 film starring Anjelica Huston.
This new take on it was announced last year. 'Back to the Future' director Robert Zemeckis in the director's chair. Alfonso Cuaron and Guillermo del Toro will produce while Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci and Chris Rock co-star.
Anne couldn't reveal much but she did indicate that it's underway and exciting stuff.
"Bob Zemeckis just took us through the film the other day and kind of let us in to peer into his imagination for a second," she said. "It's so exciting. And what he's doing is so charming. It's going to be scary, I guess, because it will be, but I can't really say anything more! I'm just really excited to be a part of it and I think he's going to do a great job."
'The Witches' relates how a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving Grandma (Spencer) in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis in late 1967. The boy and his grandmother come across some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches. Thus Grandma whisks the boy away to an opulent seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch (Hathaway) has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe to carry out her nefarious plans.