Tami Stronach. whom you might know better as the ruler of all storybook fantasy in 1984’s The Never Ending Story, is back. Childlike Empress is no longer quite so childlike, but that just means she has the adult freedom to make her OWN Never Ending Story,
and that’s just what she’s gonna do. Stronach is producing, and starring in, Man & Witch…something she calls a “lo-fi fantasy film.” What that means is that all the effects will be practical and all the locations will exist on Earth, just as the fantasy classics of the 80s were made. The Goonies’ Sean Astin and Lost’s Michael Emerson are also getting involved, and more importantly, so is Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
The cast of Man & Witch includes several animals, and with the aid of the Creature Shop they will talk. Astin is playing Dog, presumably a dog (they could throw us a curveball and make it the name of a...
