‘Wonka’s The Golden Ticket’ Is Moronic
Back in 2021, Netflix acquired the rights to the entire Roald Dahl catalogue, building on an animation-specific arrangement the streamer struck with the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2018. The reportedly billion-dollar deal meant the author’s beloved books for children, which include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, and Fantastic Mr. Fox—all of which had already been adapted prior to 2021, some of them more than once—would be fair game for future projects.
- ▪Back in 2021, Netflix acquired the rights to the entire Roald Dahl catalogue, building on an animation-specific arrangement the streamer struck with the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2018.
- ▪The reportedly billion-dollar deal meant the author’s beloved books for children, which include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, and Fantastic Mr.
- ▪Fox—all of which had already been adapted prior to 2021, some of them more than once—would be fair game for future projects.
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Back in 2021, Netflix acquired the rights to the entire Roald Dahl catalogue, building on an animation-specific arrangement the streamer struck with the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2018. The reportedly billion-dollar deal meant the author’s beloved books for children, which include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, and Fantastic Mr. Fox—all of which had already been adapted prior to 2021, some of them more than once—would be fair game for future projects. The Netflix-Dahl deal hasn’t exactly been prolific so far, but the quality of its yield has been high, including the Emma Thompson-starring Matilda the Musical and a series of shorts by Wes Anderson (one of which, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, won an Oscar).
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