Something Wicked This Way Comes
Release: April 29, 1983

Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1983 movie based on the Ray Bradbury novel, starring Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce. Directed by Jack Clayton for Walt Disney Pictures, from a screenplay written by Bradbury himself, the movie suffered from offscreen conflicts of vision. Although the 1980s Disney company was trying to grow beyond "kiddie fare" and make more complex and mature PG-rated movies, they struggled against the creepy and sometimes gruesome nature of the chosen story. Bradbury recommended Clayton to be the director, having known him since they both worked on the movie Moby Dick in 1953-1954, and again on an unproduced adaptation of Something Wicked This Way Comes at Paramount in 1977. But the two became estranged when Clayton had writer John Mortimer do an uncredited revision of Bradbury's screenplay. After a bad preview showing of the film, Bradbury wrote narration and a new ending, and Disney spent an additional US$5 million on refilming, re-editing, and rescoring the picture. He later called it "not a great film, no, but a decently nice one. In a small town, two young boys named Will and Jim encounter a strange and sinister carnival whose lead members Mr. Dark, Cooger, and the Dust Witch lure the townsfolk to their doom by promising to fulfill their secret desires. As Will, Jim, and Will's father, Charles Halloway, are about to find out, wishes often go awry with the carnival.

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