Disney's 'Witch Mountain' Getting ANOTHER Reboot

Get ready for some nostalgia, AllEars readers!

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We do our best to keep up with all the latest Disney media news. Disney just recently earned over 40 Golden Globe nominations for the 2023 awards and we know when the latest animated film Strange World will be coming to Disney+. But if you remember any of the past iterations of the Witch Mountain franchise, you’ll be thrilled to hear a new TV pilot has been greenlit for Disney+!

The Witch Mountain pilot will follow “two teens that develop strange abilities and discover their sleepy suburb may not be as idyllic as it seems” according to Variety. The pilot is set to star Bryce Dallas Howard and have Isabel Gravitt, Levi Miller, Bianca “b” Norwood, and Jackson Kelly as series regulars.

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The pilot was co-written by Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas who will also be executive producing along with Augustine Frizzell who will also direct. Additional executive producers are John Fox, John Davis, and Gary Marsh.

Howard is starring as Audrey, described as “Tia’s devoted and loving mother. Her husband died from a mental illness and she tries to reassure a fretful Tia that she shows no sign of following her father’s dark spiral. A warm mama bear type, but like everyone in this town, not everything is as it seems.”

Gravitt plays Tia, who is “a straight-A student who’s regarded by her classmates as ‘perfect,’ although she regards herself as flawed. She’s terrified of failure and is plagued by nightmares and fears that her late father’s schizophrenia is starting to exhibit itself in her. Tia has ‘hallucinations’ in which people around her step outside their living bodies and voice their deepest, darkest fears and desires and rages.”

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Miller is playing Ben, “a troubled teen who makes ends meet by writing papers for other students but he’s got a hot temper and if he slugs another student, he’ll be expelled. Ben is best friends with Corey, his co-worker at the diner. He’s recently made a troubling discovery about himself, he can force others in his vicinity to move according to his will and there’s something drawing him inexplicably in the direction of Tia.”

Norwood will play Corey, who is “Ben’s closest friend, an outsider with tattoos. Corey is a very mature teen who comes across older than they are. They are one step away from expulsion and puts more care into looking like a My Chemical Romance song that became an anime fan. Corey works at the local diner alongside Ben and is in his circle of trust, but doesn’t appreciate it when he tries to act as their protector.”

Kelly will play Peter, Tia’s closest male friend. “Peter is lovesick on the subject of Tia, but she’s unaware of his charms, and equally unaware of his devotion. But when Tia expresses her concerns about the seemingly impossible happenings around them, she learns that Peter’s observant, cautious nature might be an asset in figuring out the mystery around them.”

The last reboot of the Witch Mountain series was in 2009 with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Before that was the made-for-tv remake in 1995, and Escape to Witch Mountain in 1975 with sequels in 1978 and 1982. The whole franchise is based on the 1968 book Escape to Witch Mountain.