Poster of "A Fairy Wife at Home" (1964).
1905 Movie Network News Recently, according to foreign media reports, the American fantasy sitcom "Family with a Fairy Wife" will make a new film version, Sony Pictures is currently in development, Terry Matalas, Travis Fikit ("Nikita", "Twelve Monkeys") will be the screenwriter to write the script.
The original series aired on ABC from 1964 to 1972, and tells the story of a witch named Shamanza who falls in love with and marries the mortal Darrin Stephens, and after marriage she devotes herself to being a housewife and tries to hide her superpowers and prevent her crazy relatives from falling from the sky.
"A Fairy Wife" was remade into a film in 2005, directed by Nora Aphron, screenwriter of Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Meets Sally, and starring Nicole Kidman and Will Farrell.
It is reported that the new movie version will make a bold adaptation of the original series, but the specific plot is not yet known.