Hold My Giant Peach, We’re Getting An Entire Roald Dahl Story Universe on Netflix
Netflix will be giving us new animated shows including 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Matilda', 'The BFG', 'The Twits' and a whole bunch more.
These days, if you’re not setting your stories in an expanded universe, you might as well just go home and die. It’s the MCU, the DCU, even the Paddington expanded universe — and now joining this trend is Netflix’s Road Dahl Extended Universe.
Netflix announced today that they will be reimagining and extending some of Roald Dahl’s most beloved stories, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits and a whole bunch more, in what’s being described as a “first-of-its-kind slate of premium animated event series” which is aimed at audiences of all ages.
because a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men… we're pleased to announce a brand new Roald Dahl story universe is coming soon to Netflix ?
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) November 27, 2018
Which is cool, because it’s sometimes easy to forget that Roald Dahl novels are all deeply cooked. Remember The Witches? Woah. Extremely fucked up.
“Our mission, which is purposefully lofty, is for as many children as possible around the world to experience the unique magic and positive message of Roald Dahl’s stories,” said Roald Dahl’s widow, Felicity Dahl, in the statement released by Netflix.
“This partnership with Netflix marks a significant move toward making that possible and is an incredibly exciting new chapter for the Roald Dahl Story Company. Roald would, I know, be thrilled.”
Today my taxi driver said “I didn’t realise Roald Dahl was dead” and I meant to say “Ah, he died before I was born” but what I ended up saying was “He’s ALWAYS been dead.”
— Carl Kinsella (@TVsCarlKinsella) November 27, 2018
The list of titles that we could see include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Boy – Tales of Childhood,Going Solo, The Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, Henry Sugar, Billy and the Minpins, The Magic Finger, Esio Trot, Dirty Beasts, and Rhyme Stew.
There are some deep dives there, but I love it. George’s Marvellous Medicine is a weird one, it’s basically about a boy who poisons his grandmother until she disappears — wholesome! Looking forward to that adaptation.
Production is set to commence on the first of the Netflix Dahl animated series in 2019.