RIP Nicolas Roeg (1928 - 2018)

Filmmaker Nicolas Roeg died last week. He is best remembered by Muppet fans for directing 1990's The Witches."

Jim Henson bought the film right's to Roald Dahl's children's novel, of which the film is based, in 1983 and Roeg was selected by Jim to direct the film. 

The film marked many lasts. I was the final film Jim personally worked on, it was the final theatrical film produced by Lorimar Productions, and the last film made based on Dahl's material before his death.

Dahl was noted to have hated the film, since it didn't follow the books darker ending. 

Roeg has another Henson connection, having directed future Goblin King David Bowie in 1976's The Man Who Fell to Earth.

You can read more about his life from the New York Times. He was 90 years old.