![]() ![]() ![]() But, as Will discovers the carousel that runs backwards as it plays Chopin’s “Funeral March”, he realizes that people riding that carousel grow younger and younger. Two boys, almost fourteen, Will Holloway and Jim Nightshade, were eager to find out all the secrets of the carnival. on October 24 when Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show arrived. One year, Halloween arrived in the town at 3 a.m. The book takes place in October in Green Town, Illinois. So, Ray Bradbury intended this to be a movie. ![]() Then, it became a series of screenplays again, and Disney came calling, and turned it into a wonderful movie with Jason Robards and Jonathan Pryce. So, he turned it back to Bradbury, who went on to write the book. Kelly loved the screenplay, and shopped it around with himself as director and producer, but he couldn’t come up with the money. He dug up an old short story because he wanted to write a movie for Gene Kelly to produce. The Afterword of the book explains why.īradbury wrote Something Wicked This Way Comes as a screenplay. There are only a few times I’ve said that about a book and movie, but I don’t think Bradbury would have been disappointed by that viewpoint. When discussing Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, I told friends that the movie was better. ![]()
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