{"id":46995,"date":"2022-12-12T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T23:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=46995"},"modified":"2022-12-12T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T23:26:20","slug":"disney-greenlights-witch-mountain-pilot-a-reimagining-of-the-successful-film-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/12\/disney-greenlights-witch-mountain-pilot-a-reimagining-of-the-successful-film-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ Greenlights &#8220;Witch Mountain&#8221; Pilot, A Reimagining of the Successful Film Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46996\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/witch-mountain6.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/witch-mountain6.webp 557w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/witch-mountain6-300x165.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Disney+ announced today a pilot greenlight for &#8220;<strong><em>Witch Mountain<\/em><\/strong>,&#8221; a reimagining of the successful film franchise. The series is a modern reinvention of the cult classic that takes place in the shadow of &#8220;<em>Witch Mountain<\/em>,&#8221; following two teens that develop strange abilities and discover their sleepy suburb may not be as idyllic as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Dallas Howard (&#8220;<em>Jurassic World: Dominion<\/em>&#8220;) stars in the leading role as &#8220;Audrey,&#8221; Tia&#8217;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&#8217;s dark spiral. A warm mama bear type, but like everyone in this town, not everything is as it seems.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2299242053\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Howard is a multi-hyphenate creator who continues to work both on-screen and behind the camera. As an actor, she recently starred alongside Chris Pratt in Universal&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Jurassic World<\/em>&#8221; franchise and next stars in Matthew Vaughn&#8217;s spy thriller\u00a0&#8220;Argylle&#8221;\u00a0for Apple TV+. Earlier this year, Howard\u00a0lent her voice to the <em>Star Wars<\/em> character &#8220;Yaddle&#8221; in the animated Disney+ series &#8220;<em>Tales of the Jedi<\/em>.&#8221; Howard is represented by Entertainment 360, WME, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole.<\/p>\n<p>Isabel Gravitt (&#8220;<em>The Watcher<\/em>&#8220;), Levi Miller (&#8220;<em>Streamline<\/em>&#8220;), Bianca &#8220;b&#8221; Norwood (&#8220;<em>We Crashed<\/em>&#8220;), and Jackson Kelly (&#8220;<em>Straight Man<\/em>&#8220;) have been cast in the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Fickett and Terry Matalas co-wrote the pilot and are executive producers; Augustine Frizzell (&#8220;<em>Euphoria<\/em>&#8220;) will direct and is executive producer on the pilot. John Fox and John Davis of Davis Entertainment are executive producing as well as Gary Marsh. The Disney Branded Television series is produced by ABC Signature, part of Disney Television Studios.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Isabel Gravitt (series regular) as &#8220;Tia,&#8221; a straight-A student who&#8217;s regarded by her classmates as &#8220;perfect,&#8221; although she regards herself as flawed. She&#8217;s terrified of failure and is plagued by nightmares and fears that her late father&#8217;s schizophrenia is starting to exhibit itself in her. Tia has &#8220;hallucinations&#8221; in which people around her step outside their living bodies and voice their deepest, darkest fears and desires, and rages. Gravitt is known for her series regular role as &#8220;Ellie Brannock&#8221; in Netflix&#8217;s hit limited series &#8220;<em>The Watcher<\/em>.&#8221; She made her debut in CBS&#8217;s pilot &#8220;<em>The History of Us<\/em>&#8221; and had recurring roles in ABC&#8217;s &#8220;<em>American Housewife<\/em>&#8221; and Hulu&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Little Fires Everywhere<\/em>.&#8221; Gravitt is represented by Buchwald and Randy James Management.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3384982348\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00b7 Levi Miller (series regular) as &#8220;Ben,&#8221; a troubled teen who makes ends meet by writing papers for other students but he&#8217;s got a hot temper and if he slugs another student, he&#8217;ll be expelled. 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