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THE BIG FRIENDLY Giant (BFG) is one of the most beloved characters in children’s literature – and now he’s finally after making it to the big screen.
With director Steven Spielberg at the helm, we can be pretty sure that the Roald Dahl story is in safe hands.
If you’d forgotten what it was all about, the 1982 book The BFG is about a little girl in London who meets the Big Friendly Giant (BFG), who only appears after midnight.
He shows her around Giant Country, which is a bit of a scary – but fascinating – place to visit.
“I think it was kind of genius of Roald Dahl to be able to empower the children,” said Spielberg.
It was very, very brave of him to introduce that combination of darkness and light, and being able to do scary, but also be redemptive at the same time and teach a lesson, an enduring lesson, to everyone, it was a wonderful thing for Dahl to have done, and it was one of the things that attracted me to want to direct this Dahl book.
The BFG is played by Mark Rylance, and we also get to meet fellow giants Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) and Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement), who are much bigger and scarier. Little Sophie is played by newcomer Ruby Barnhill.
The script was written by the late Melissa Mathison, who also wrote ET. In good hands? Most certainly.
The film opens in July 2016, which also marks the 100th year of Roald Dahl’s birth. You can find the movie on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram - and it even has its own hashtag: #TheBFGMovie.
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Some books should be kept off TV and cinema screens. Nothing can replace the imagination and fantasy of a child. Roald Dahl’s stories are precious. And if I am not mistaken, from his books you can pick up the sense he didn’t like children watching TV.
But there already is a BFG film. Why try and top David Jason?
My guess would be because Disney somehow got their grubby mitts on Dahls books and are gonna milk the bejaysis out of it while leaving very little of the subversive elements of the originals intact…My favourite book btw is George’s Marvelous Medicine…The description of the grandmothers puckered up mouth looking like a dogs backside had me hooked. Somehow I can’t imagine Disney allowing that through.
Of course not. Offensive to dogs everywhere ;)
Nothing beat reading his books as a kid – the man was a goddamn genius, a wizard.
Roald Dahl is a legend and his books should last forever
Everyone’s in love with the trailer? I must be missing something because the viewing figures seem pretty low for any of the trailers I can readily find on Youtube. I’ve no doubt they’ll quickly soar, but as it stands they are low, so who’s ‘everyone’?
There’s already a couple of (no doubt authentic) reaction vids, with very low viewing figures.
Hold on, is this article actually an ad?
Its purdy cool alright… I’ll look forward to that!
Omgomgomgomg =D =D =D
Big F***ing Gun. Doom fans know.
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