Make My Movie

NZFC / NZ On Air / nzherald.co.nz present... the MAKE MY MOVIE project. Our proud history of profound, progressive & potty thinking: Splittng the Atom / Women Getting the Vote / the Zorb and now we have another world first: the MAKE MY MOVIE project

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Eye of Newt

A “Petersen Entertainment Productions” FILM
WRITTEN BY Les Petersen

Three ancient witches, URSULA, GLENDA and MEDEA, live in obscurity by making a living as, fortune tellers and selling “love charms” . On the evening an up and coming actor comes to get his fortune told, Medea inadvertently creates a potion that turns all three hags into young, beautiful women. With their ugly looks gone, so too is their witching power.

Chaos ensues. Ursula is horrified and refuses to leave her bedroom until the other two can come up with an antidote. Medea is rather bewitched by her new looks and is reluctant to do anything about it. After many centuries of being shunned and hated, here is her chance to be a glamour girl. Ursula, much more practical than the others, dons a rubber witch’s mask and ‘wings it’ with Craig.

Their long established routines are destroyed. None of their rags fit, they’re longer able to fly on broomsticks and must undertake domestic duties that their magic had done for them before. All their past lives are brought out in the knockdown fight that ensues. . Their bitter disputes bring them to the notice of the local police, who are suspicious about where the three old women who used to live in the house have gone.

The three finally realise they must work together in order to return to their former selves. They must use the powerful magics – the potentially lethal, life-changing “Eye of Newt” spell first cast by MacBeth’s witches. And worse still, Newts are scarce and those that exist are protected by law.

Do they have enough skills to weave the magic? Do they have the endurance to bear the forces of nhas never harmed anyone? ature that will be unleashed? And, which of them, can pluck out the eye of an endangered Newt that never hurt anyone?