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Something wicked this way comes novel5/21/2023 But as Something Wicked This Way Comes turns 40, what is Bradbury’s story like to revisit on the screen? Like many of its PG brethren, the film lost money and won mixed to negative reviews. But it also had a difficult production and post-production, with backroom rewrites, discarded scores, and extensive (and expensive) reshoots. Something Wicked had a more celebrated literary pedigree than the others, and it had direct input from Bradbury himself. Besides Something Wicked, The Watcher in the Woods, The Black Cauldron, Return to Oz, and Dragonslayer were produced within a five-year period before Miller’s ouster from the studio. Part of his strategy involved backing several darker projects that, if still focused on childhood fantasies and happy endings, put at least one foot over the G-rated line. The film was made at a time when Walt’s son-in-law, studio president Ron Miller, was trying to pull Disney out of a long rut.
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