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The Witch Mountain franchise consists of American science fiction fantasy-action adventure films, produced by The Walt Disney Company. [1] [2] [3] Based on the 1968 novel Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key, the films deal with extraterrestrial children on Earth seeking to return to their home planet, while antagonists attempt to foil their escape.
In 1995, Escape to Witch Mountain was produced as a television film, with a different cast and several details changed or omitted, and released as part of The Wonderful World of Disney. A reworked Disney live-action feature film Race to Witch Mountain, with a new telling and directed by Andy Fickman, was theatrically released in March 2009.
In July 2007, Walt Disney Pictures hired Andy Fickman to direct Witch Mountain, a "modern re-imagining" of Escape to Witch Mountain, using a script by Matt Lopez. [16] The following August, Dwayne Johnson (most notably famous for portraying The Rock in the WWE) was cast into a lead role, with filming scheduled to begin in March 2008. [4]
Nanny and the Professor cast 1970 (clockwise from top) Richard Long, David Doremus, Trent Lehman, Richards and Juliet Mills. Richards and her sister Kyle played sisters in the thriller film The Car (1977). She teamed up once again with Witch Mountain co-star Ike Eisenmann in the made-for-television movie Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978).
Christian Juttner, the actor who starred in Return From Witch Mountain as a child, has died. He was 60. Juttner died of natural causes at his home in Yucca Valley, Calif., on Nov. 29, 2024, his ...
Return from Witch Mountain was released on VHS in April 1986. It was first released as a Special Edition DVD in Region 1 on September 2, 2003, re-released on DVD in a two-movie collection along with Escape to Witch Mountain on September 5, 2006, and re-released as part of the Walt Disney Family Classics line on March 10, 2009.
Juttner, who started working in TV several years before his starring role in Disney’s 1978 science fiction film Return From Witch Mountain, died while at his home in Yucca Valley, Calif., on Nov ...
In 2002, he directed and appeared in a 12-minute short film, the spoof The Blair Witch Mountain Project. [5] The 2009 Witch Mountain remake, Race to Witch Mountain, features Eisenmann in a cameo along with his original co-star Kim Richards. [6] Richards and Eisenmann appear in a scene together as a waitress and a sheriff, respectively. [6]