K.T Simpson
Does anyone else have a childhood just chock-full of Roald Dahl memories?! “The BFG”, “Matilda”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”….and the list goes on and on. Exciting news for nostalgia lovers, with Netflix announcing an animated series of the classics to come to the streaming service in 2019.
Titles coming to the platform 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”.
Melissa Cobb, Vice President of Kids & Family Content at Netflix, commented: “Immersing ourselves in the extraordinary worlds of Roald Dahl stories has been an honor and a massive amount of fun, and we are grateful for the trust the Roald Dahl Story Company and the Dahl family have placed in our team to deliver more moments of shared joy to families around the world. We have great creative ambition to reimagine the journeys of so many treasured Dahl characters in fresh, contemporary ways with the highest quality animation and production values.”
Check out the teaser from Netflix above.
