Movie-goers don’t need to look far to see signs of Stan Lee ‘s influence on the big screen. Characters that Smilin’ Stan co-created with Jack Kirby , Steve Ditko , and others continue to fill movie theaters, guys like Spider-Man and the Avengers . But anyone who knows anything about Lee also knows that he longed to move out of doing superheroes and into other forms of media, including film. To help him make the move, he sought out the help of collaborators, including Troma Entertainment founder Lloyd Kaufman.

One of those aborted projects is finally coming to life, more than 50 years since Lee worked on it. Bloody Disgusting is reporting that pre-production has begun on Night of the Witch , based on the screenplay that Lee and Kaufman wrote back in 1971. Joe Manco will dir

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