One has to wonder if the thinking was this: "The Smurf's got a movie, why not Sabrina" combined with "Hey, Super Heroes make money - aren't witches Super Heroes - so make Sabrina the Teenage Witch a Super Hero." This is to say that the Archie Comics character that had a few side stories in the anicent Saturday Morning cartoon, or the button cute character immortalized by young people and older perverts of the time played by Melissa Jone Hart is getting the big screen treatment. Instead of being a comedy (because the Bewitched movie showed flim makers the error of that way), it's going Super Hero and will be. as pretitious jackasses from Hollywood would say, edgy. According to places on the internet that report these things they are going to retool the story to make her a super hero coming to terms with her powers, in the vain of Dark Knight or Spider-Man. (Just be glad they didn't say Punisher War Journal.) The character will get an origin story, probably a lackluster villian and even a love interest - who will be Sabastian the talking cat - who, in the movie, will be a prince of someplace transformed. (Actually, you CAN make this stuff up, unfortunately we're not this time.) I think at times like these we need the severed head of Benicio Del Toro ala Sin City, looking at the execs planing this and saying "You're making a mistake!" How much do you want to bet they get a cast member of Secret Circle to play Sabrina? Any takers?
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