EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has set a movie based on Bewitched, the classic TV series that starred Elizabeth Montgomery.
Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett, who ran the TV series MacGyver and 12 Monkeys, will write the script. John Davis and John Fox are producing through Davis Entertainment.Sony tried a romantic comedy movie version in 2005, which Nora Ephron directed and which starred Nicole Kidman as the witch and Will Ferrell as her hapless husband Darrin.
This one will be different, I’m told. Its jumping off point is the series, in which a witch marries an advertising exec and then tries to hide her powers and her crazy relatives who drop in often.
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