Bryce Dallas Howard will lead the cast of a Disney+ TV pilot based on the family-oriented “Witch Mountain” franchise.
The show will be a modern take on the franchise and follows two teens that develop strange abilities and discover their sleepy suburb may not be as idyllic as it seems.
Isabel Gravitt (“The Watcher”), Levi Miller (“A Wrinkle in Time”), Bianca ‘b’ Norwood (“WeCrashed”) and Jackson Kelly (“Straight Man”) are also set as series regulars.
Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas co-wrote the pilot and will executive producer alongside Augustine Frizzell, Gary Marsh, John Fox and John Davis. Frizzell will direct the project which hails from ABC Signature.
“Escape to Witch Mountain” was released in 1975, based on the 1968 book of the same name. Sequels followed in 1978 and 1982, whilst Dwayne Johnson led a 2009 film reboot.
Howard remains attached to direct the “Flight of the Navigator” reboot for the Disney+ service.
Source: TV Line
