{"id":93481,"date":"2016-12-08T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=93481"},"modified":"2016-12-08T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T12:07:33","slug":"kate-mckinnon-to-star-in-a-lunch-lady-witch-ya-film-praise-the-movie-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/kate-mckinnon-to-star-in-a-lunch-lady-witch-ya-film-praise-the-movie-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate McKinnon to star in a lunch lady witch YA film, praise the movie gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2016 has officially got good again at the very last minute, and it&#8217;s all down to <em><strong>SNL <\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0<em><strong>Ghostbusters\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>star\/heartthrob Kate McKinnon and her latest film role.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/12\/kate-mckinnon-to-star-in-amblins-the-lunch-witch-1201866199\/\">Deadline<\/a>, McKinnon has been cast in the title role in <em><strong>The Lunch Witch<\/strong><\/em>, a fantasy comedy film\u00a0for Amblin Entertainment. That&#8217;s right: she&#8217;s playing a lunch lady who is also a witch. We are all truly blessed.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Lunch Witch\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is based on Deb Lucke&#8217;s YA novel, and will star McKinnon as Grunhilda, a retired witch-turned-lunch lady, who cooks up both potions and dinner in her cauldron. In the first book of the series, she struggles with herself when\u00a0a child at the school she works at needs help, even though helping people goes against everything Grunhilda believes in as a witch.<\/p>\n<p>The film will be directed by Clay Kaytis, who will also been making his live-action directing debut after helming <em><strong>The Angry Birds Movie<\/strong><\/em> earlier this year. He&#8217;s also previously worked in the animation departments on films like <em><strong>Frozen<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Tangled<\/strong><\/em>, and\u00a0<em><strong>Wreck-It Ralph<\/strong><\/em>, as well as a whole load of (good) nineties Disney films.\u00a0Michael De Luca (<em><strong>The Social Network<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>American History X<\/strong><\/em>)\u00a0is producing.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a character description for the book version of Grunhilda (and her dog, Mr Williams), which can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunchwitch.com\/about-grunhilda\/\">official website<\/a> for\u00a0<em><strong>The Lunch Witch<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Grunhilda the Black Heart<strong class=\"about-name\">\u00a0<\/strong>is a witch by trade, but owing to circumstances beyond her control (namely the sharp decline in the number of evil stepmothers), she no longer earns her living by magic. Today, she is a lunch lady at Salem Elementary, where she enjoys tormenting children with food. She lives in Salem with her familiars. Mr. Williams is a rather nervous fellow, having never fully recovered from the fact that he is now a dog and not a tax accountant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kate McKinnon is a perfect choice, right? Right. We&#8217;re not even going to discuss\u00a0<em>why<\/em> she&#8217;s perfect for this because we all know she is.<\/p>\n<p>Now enjoy this Holtzmann gif.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tumblr_o3h37546Pl1v6mqeeo2_540.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tumblr_o3h37546Pl1v6mqeeo2_540.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_o3h37546pl1v6mqeeo2_540\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Love Witch<\/em> does not yet have a release date. Get all the latest fantasy news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/4695\/s\/scifinow-issue-126\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lunch Witch is being made into a film starring Kate McKinnon, whaaat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":93484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5522,5523],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/545750664-actress-kate-mckinnon-attends-the-los-angeles-premiere.jpg.CROP_.cq5dam_web_1280_1280_jpeg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}