New Bradbury 100 podcast episode: Rescuing SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

Last time on the Bradbury 100 podcast, we looked at the origin of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and its peculiar history as a film script that became a book, and then became a film script again.

In this new episode of the show, I continue the story, examining how the film - disastrously previewed in 1982 - was rescued through some re-writing, re-shooting and re-editing. Ray claimed that he "directed" or "edited" the film doing this re-make period, rescuing it from the clutches of director Jack Clayton. But is this really true?

Join me as I dig into the archives, and look for evidence of what really went on.

This picture up above, by the way, is a publicity still showing Ray Bradbury and actor Royal Dano (who took the pivotal role of the Lightning Rod salesman in the film).

Before listening to the pod, you might want to re-watch this short video clip from 2017, where I talk about finding Ray Bradbury's personal copy of the preview version of Something Wicked: 

 

...and here's the podcast, also available via your podcast app:

Bradbury 100 · Bradbury 100 - Episode 45 - Rescuing SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

 

 

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