Talk:The Witches (2020 film)

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A few thoughts on including some more information on Differences in film vs Novel:

The article states the film "was described by Zemeckis as being closer to the original novel than the version of 1990 directed by Nicolas Roeg.[3] Kenya Barris will co write the film, which was revealed as taking place in Alabama during the 1960s, instead of the novel's 1980s England, and that the boy protagonist (originally an English child of Norwegian descent in the novel) is to be played by a black actor."

As a fan of the 1990 film and novel, this new film sounds drastically different to me then the novel. Why the 1960's ??? Why not a Sequel or even a Prequel to either the novel or the 1990 film? Why must everything be RE-done without paying homage to the original works?

The most notable difference from the 1990 film and the book is that the boy is restored to human form at the end of the story by the Grand High Witch's assistant (a character who also does not appear in the book) renouncing her former evil. The author Dahl regarded the 1990 film as "utterly appalling". I wonder how he would feel about this new film with these MAJOR plot differences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.31.219.217 (talk) 20:52, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

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I was about to reply here with my rationale for moving this page to Roald Dahl's The Witches, but then I noticed that you had changed the lead to label the longer title as an alternative name rather than the official name, so I decided to investigate further. Per the billing block and copyright filing, it appears The Witches is indeed the official title whereas Roald Dahl's The Witches is an alternate title, so I agree that the article should remain as it is.

With that being said, I would like to note that if this had not been the case, the article should have been moved to Roald Dahl's The Witches per WP:NATURAL, which states (with emphasis added): See also WP:SUBTITLE. This is why we have Rogue One and Romeo + Juliet, but Solo: A Star Wars Story and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant. InfiniteNexus (talk) 07:31, 1 January 2024 (UTC)