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Roald dahl short stories gambler1/8/2023 ![]() He’s being tipped for awards for his stellar turn in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, and has also been much-praised for his role in cat-herding work in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. ![]() Also on the slate is Matilda the Musical, with Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull.įor Cumberbatch, l ife is truly an Everlasting Gobstopper for at the moment. The film is part of Netflix’s $686 million deal with the Roald Dahl estate to adapt the author’s works. This being a Dahl story, it’s a superpower of sorts that leads only to mishap and potential disaster. Less well-known than Dahl’s most famous yarns like ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’, which Anderson himself adapted into a stop-motion gem in 2009, ‘Henry Sugar’ follows a wealthy gambler who discovers the power to see through objects. The actor will play the title character in ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’, according to The Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye, with the film scheduled to start shooting in London soon. Enter Wes Anderson to make that dream a reality.Īnderson, fresh from his latest film, Asteroid City, will be directing Cumberbatch in a new Netflix adaptation of one of Dahl’s short stories. A man whose very name sounds like a Roald Dahl character, Benedict Cumberbatch feels like a natural fit for the British author's wonderful childhood fables of the ever-so-slightly macabre.
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