W.I.T.C.H. (film)

W.I.T.C.H.: Guardians Rising is an upcoming American action fantasty loosely based on the comics books W.I.T.C.H. created by Elisabetta Gnon, Alessandro Barbucci and Barbara Canepa. It is to be directed by Angelina Jolie, written by Linda Woolverton and Jason Fuchs

The cast features Stefanie Scott, Hailee Steinfeld, Zoë Kravitz, Elle Fanning, Hayley Kiyo, Ashton Moio, Lee Pace, Dan Stevens and Joey King.

This film is set to be released January 13, 2017

Cast

 * Stefanie Scott as Will Vandom
 * Hailee Steinfeld as Irma Liar
 * Zoë Kravitz as Taranee Cook
 * Elle Fanning as Cornelia Hale
 * Hayley Kiyoko as Hay Lin
 * Ashton Moio as Caleb
 * Dan Stevens as Prince Phobos
 * Lee Pace as Lord Cedric
 * Joey King as Elyon Brown

Voice Cast

 * Steve Blum as Blunk
 * Paul Reubens as Lord Cedric (monster form)
 * Lloyd Sherr as Vathek

Pre-Production
In October 2014 the rights of the comics was sold to Disney despite the TV Series aired on Jetix through ToonDisney in 2004-2006 before it became Disney XD and is currently airing.

Sam Raimi was originally chosen to produce and direct, declined and stay on as producer along with Linda Woolverton and Jason Fuchs penning to screenplay. On Nov, 7 Brian Grazer board the project with his studio Imagine Entertainment marking it his first Disney produced film and recommended that Ron Howard should direct the film after he finished Inferno but wasn't interested, so other candidates including Sam Taylor-Wood, Daniel Espinosa, Anne Fletcher, Chris Columbus, Joe Wright and Alan Taylor

On Nov, 12 Director Angelina Jolie (Unbroken) was in talks to direct and co-produce.

Filming
Filming will begin in April 2015 in New York, second unit filming will take place Ireland