Film Version
The book has been adapted into a film by director Nicolas Roeg starring Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson, released in 1990 (the year both Roald Dahl and Jim Henson died) and distributed by Warner Bros. the film the boy is named Lucas (but mainly called "Luke") Eveshim, the grandmother Helga Eveshim, and The Grand High Witch Evangeline Ernst. The most notable difference from the book is that the boy is restored to human form at the end of the story by the Grand High Witch's assistant (a character who doesn't appear in the book) who had renounced her former evil. This was an ending that Dahl himself hated.
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