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Theater staple Mark Rylance, a three-time Emmy winner for stage offerings ”Boeing Boeing”, ”Jerusalem” and ”Twelfth Night”, has nabbed the lead role in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic “The BFG”.
The film, which goes into production early 2015 for a July 1, 2016 release, teams a young girl, Queen Elizabeth, and a Giant who set out to stop man-eating Giants from terrorizing the world.
“As I witnessed on stage, Mark Rylance is a transformational actor,” Spielberg said of the actor, who has a role in the upcoming Tom Hanks’s Cold-War thriller. “I am excited and thrilled that Mark will be making this journey with us to Giant Country. Everything about his career so far is about making the courageous choice, and I’m honored he has chosen The BFG as his next big screen performance.
“We are ecstatic at this choice. Mark is incredibly talented, one of the great British actors working today”, said Dahl’s grandson Luke Kelly. “I’ve had the privilege of seeing Mark perform, and the thought of watching him transform into ‘the only nice and jumbly giant in Giant Country’ is, as The BFG himself might say, absolutely phizz-whizzing.”
In addition to the aforesaid Hanks film, Rylance will next be seen in ”The Gunman”, ”Days and Nights” and the BBC adaptation of ”Wolf Hall”.
