The Internet Movie Database only notes that a new Witches of Eastwick movie is “in development,” but Distractify published a piece yesterday on “Here’s Everything We Know About the ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ Remake So Far.”
Quoting Warner Bros. Screen Daily, Katherine Stinson reported that the project is moving forward with Swedish filmmaker Ninja Thyberg “attached to the project to direct” and producers currently working on the project “include husband-and-wife producing team Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher.” Stinson wrote that Wick’s previous producing credits included Gladiator, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Great Gatsby, and two Divergent films, while Fisher, in addition to those films, was involved with the 2005 Bewitched movie adaptation.
The original 1987 film starred Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, and Michelle Pfeiffer, with Updike later identifying Pfeiffer as his favorite.
The article you link to asks if the new film will “do justice to the original film,” but I’d rather see it do justice to the book. The original film omitted the character of Jenny Gabriel and therefore a key part of the plot. In fact, Updike’s sequel, “The Widows of Eastwick,” is driven by the witches’ remorse over what they did to Jenny.
Of course, it’s not unusual for movie adaptations to appropriate the characters but scrap the plot and go in a different direction, but this was a particular shame with “Witches.” As far as I’m concerned, the book has not yet been properly filmed. (I haven’t seen any of the TV or stage versions, but they seem to have been inspired more by the movie than by the book.)