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teaming with Ray Bradburyanother step up for Disney?“By the pricking of my thumbs.Something wicked this way comes.- Act IV, *Macbeth, ’ r William ShakespeareBy ANNE GALLAGHER“There’s no guarantee it will turn0»'t”Ray Bradbury says that. About his novel, turned screenplay by him, filmed by Walt Disney Productions with him on the set two or three days a week, released this weekend with his blessing in theaters throughout Chicago.“But you either believe in yourself or you don’t, continues the science-fiction master. If you’ve written a good book, it's a good book no matter what comes up against it. If it’s a good film, it’s a good film no matter what opens against it.”SO BRADBURY is hedging his bets In favor of another step up for Disney as moviegoers weigh Bradbury’s own past record (The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, It Came from Outer Space) and Disney’s recent string of successes (“Tron,” “Tex”) in deciding whether to give the Bradbury/Disney team-up “Something Wicked This Way Comes” their consideration.Bradbury confesses to having been“movie-struck' himself since the ageof 2. “I’ve seen just about every film ever made — my favorites 30 or 40 times.“I’ve always been a cartoon freak too,” he says. “When I came to Los Angeles at the age of IS (from northsuburban Waukegan, where he was born in 1920), I discovered a whole room of celluloid creations at the LA Countymuseum. Many were Walt Disney’s, and he became my hero.“It has saddened me in recent years though, when Disney didn’t do as well.”TWO YEARS ago, then, when some Disney people approached him in hopes of changing the studio’s image, Bradbury responded with the screenplay he’d written from his best-selling novel Something Wicked...Jack (“The Great Gatsby”) Clayton directed the subsequent film production, starring Jason Robards as the librarian who helps his young son and the boy’s friend battle evil when a mysterious carnival visits their small Illinois town.“The ghost of Walt’s is real to me,” says Bradbury, “and I’d like to feel that this film pleases the ghost.”
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Chicago Heights Auburn Community Booster
Chicago Heights, Illinois, US
Sun, May 01, 1983
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