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Four short films by Wes Anderson based on stories by Roald Dahl arrive on Netflix. The films, adaptations of stories from the collection. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six Morepublished in 1977, They will be released one by one, every day between September 27 and 30.the platform announced.
The four productions represent the return of the American filmmaker to the literary universe of the British children’s author, which had already been made into a film by Anderson in The Fantastic Mr. Fox2009.
Before reaching Netflix, one of the films, the title The wonderful story of Henry Sugar, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1 (where the filmmaker was honored). It will also be the first of four shorts to premiere on Netflix., on September 27. Continue The Cisneat 28, The rat catcherat 29, and Poisonat 30.
In an interview with the website Indiewire in June, Anderson revealed that this was a project he had had in mind for several years and that Roald Dahl’s own family had “reserved” it for him. “For years, I wanted to do the ‘henry sugar‘. [A família de Dahl] “Leave this story aside for me because I am his friend,” he said.
A well-known defender of the importance of showing films in movie theaters, the filmmaker explained the decision to partner with the film platform on this project. transmission. “By the time it was ready, Dahl’s family no longer had the rights: they had sold them to Netflix.. (…) Basically there was no other place to do it, since they are the owners.” This situation was also exacerbated by the fact that the project is not a traditional feature film, but rather a series of smaller stories. “It was the perfect place to do it because it’s not really a movie,” Anderson defended.
The shorts will feature a rotating cast of actors who will play different roles in each of them. Among them are names that have already collaborated with Wes Anderson, such as Ralph Fiennes and Rupert Friend, as well as new names in the director’s filmography, such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel and Ben Kingsley. “I like the idea of having a small company of actors doing all the movies,” he told Netflix news website Tudum.
The premiere of four short films henry sugar marks the end of a very busy year for the 54-year-old director, who had already released the feature film this year asteroid citystarring Jason Schwartzman and Scarlett Johansson and which premiered in May at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Source: Observadora
