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…
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