The Witches of Eastwick - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Witches of Eastwick"
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Timing:
1:58 (118 min)
6.5/10
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7.265/10
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6.6/10
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Neil Canton
Producer
Peter Guber
Producer
Jon Peters
Producer
Executive Producer
Don Devlin
Executive Producer
Casting
Wallis Nicita
Casting
Editor
Hubert C. de la Bouillerie
Editor
Art Direction
Mark W. Mansbridge
Art Direction
Costume Design
Stunts
Christine Anne Baur
Stunts
Paula Moody
Stunts
Production Design
Stunt Coordinator
Alan Gibbs
Stunt Coordinator
Set Decoration
Joe D. Mitchell
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Leonard Engelman
Makeup Artist
Ben Nye Jr.
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Unit Production Manager
Michael S. Glick
Unit Production Manager
Stunt Double
Director of Photography
Sound Effects Editor
Susan Dudeck
Sound Effects Editor
Bob Newlan
Sound Effects Editor
Charles Ewing Smith
Sound Effects Editor
Jerry Stanford
Sound Effects Editor
Robert Waxman
Sound Effects Editor
Visual Effects Supervisor
Michael Owens
Visual Effects Supervisor
Supervising Sound Editor
Robert R. Rutledge
Supervising Sound Editor
Script Supervisor
Joanie Blum
Script Supervisor
Screenplay
Novel
Set Designer
Stan Tropp
Set Designer
Robert E. Sessa
Set Designer
Makeup Designer
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Production Sound Mixer
Art Rochester
Production Sound Mixer
Visual Effects Editor
Howard Stein
Visual Effects Editor
Visual Effects Art Director
Dave Carson
Visual Effects Art Director
Modeling
Steve Gawley
Modeling
Sound Editor
Thomas Needell
Sound Editor
Creature Design
Tony Hudson
Creature Design
Visual Effects Assistant Editor
Timothy Eaton
Visual Effects Assistant Editor
Terrence Peck
Visual Effects Assistant Editor
Visual Effects Camera
Kim Marks
Visual Effects Camera
Pat Turner
Visual Effects Camera
What's left behind the scenes
- Initially, the role of Alexandra, which ultimately went to Cher, was to be played by Susan Sarandon.
- 'The Witches of Eastwick' is a film adaptation of a work by John Updike.
- Initially, Daryl Van Horne was to be played by Bill Murray.
- Angelica Huston auditioned for the role of Alexandra.
- When the studio discussed possible ways to reduce the film's budget, George Miller offered to give up his personal trailer, arguing that the director was constantly needed on set and therefore had no need for it. The studio bosses saw this as a weakness and began to actively interfere with the director's production requests. For example, if Miller requested 50 units of some prop, the studio would provide only a dozen. If he requested two cameras, the studio would provide one. Miller decided to 'fight fire with fire' and began refusing to shoot scenes for which requests were not fully met. The studio responded by beginning a search for a new director. Jack Nicholson saved George Miller from being fired, supporting the director and publicly vowing to leave the project if Miller was replaced.
- The whistling of Daryl Van Horne in the scene at the ice cream vendor was whistled by the film's composer, John Williams, himself.
- The snake featured in one of the film's scenes is a completely harmless gray-banded kingsnake (Lampropeltis alterna), which is a common sight in Texas.
- During test screenings, audiences were so dissatisfied with the original ending of the film that several alternative endings had to be shot.
- The piece Daryl Van Horne plays on the violin is Caprice No. 16 in G minor by Niccolò Paganini.
- The line “A woman is a hole, isn’t that what they say? All the futility of the world flows into it” is a quote from the book by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, *Being and Nothingness*.
- The character Walter Neff's name is a reference to the famous film noir by Billy Wilder, "Double Indemnity" (1944), where the protagonist has the same name.
- The episode in which one of the heroines falls from a balcony is a quote from Richard Donner's classic horror film "The Omen" (1976).
- Angelica Huston's transformation into the Grand Witch took 8 hours in the makeup chair.
- When the boys were turned into mice, rats and puppets were used to play their roles.
- The props department, led by Jim Henson (1936-1990), created mouse models of various sizes. Size A creatures were the size of real mice and were controlled using thin wires. Size B mice resembled large rats and were also controlled with wires. Size C mice were almost a meter tall and were operated manually. The latter were used in only a few scenes, as director Nicolas Roeg decided that it would be too difficult to combine a close-up of a person and such a mouse during editing. Roeg preferred to work with a single frame width, so smaller mouse models in reduced sets were most often used.
- The snowy landscape against which the opening credits appear was filmed in Ulvik, a center of the Hordaland commune in Norway.
- The Headland Hotel in Newquay, UK, served as the Hotel Excelsior.
- Cher, Eartha Kitt, Geneviève Bujold, Ann Bancroft, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Blair, Faye Dunaway, Susan Sarandon, Jodie Foster, Vanessa Redgrave, Frances Conroy, and Liza Minnelli were considered for the role of the Grand Witch.
- Mostly men in disguise played the witches at the gathering in the hotel.
- For the British release, a couple of scenes from the film (featuring the witch's face and Bruno's transformation into a mouse) had to be re-edited to allow the British Board of Film Classification to grant it a PG rating (all ages are admitted, but parental guidance is suggested).
- Neither the novel nor the film explains why the witches hate children so much, or why the Grand Witch intends to get rid of all the children in the country.
- In addition to a happy ending, an alternate ending more faithful to the original book was filmed. Both versions were shown to test groups. It turned out that the audience preferred the happy ending.
- "The Witches of Eastwick" is a film adaptation of a work by John Updike.
- When the studio discussed possible ways to reduce the film's budget, George Miller offered to give up his personal trailer, arguing that the director was constantly needed on set and therefore had no use for it. The studio bosses saw this as a weakness and began to actively interfere with the director's production requests. For example, if Miller requested 50 units of some props, the studio would provide only a dozen. If he requested two cameras, the studio would provide one. Miller decided to "fight fire with fire" and began refusing to shoot scenes for which requests were not fully met. The studio responded by starting to search for a new director. Jack Nicholson saved George Miller from being fired, supporting the director and publicly vowing to leave the project if Miller were replaced.
- The line, "A woman is a hole, isn't that what they say? All the emptiness of the world flows into it," is a quote from the book by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness."
- The name of the character Walter Neff is a reference to the famous film noir by Billy Wilder, "Double Indemnity" (1944), where the protagonist has the same name.
- The scene in which one of the heroines falls from the balcony is a quote from Richard Donner's classic horror film "The Omen" (1976).
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