Wes Anderson has shared a first look at The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
This upcoming short film will be 37 minutes long and is based on the short story by Roald Dahl. Anderson, director of recent movies like Asteroid City, The French Dispatch, and Isle of Dogs, writes, directs, and produces this adventure comedy short, which is set to premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival in September and then release on Netflix.
“I did some Roald Dahl short story adaptations,” Anderson once told The Daily Beast. They’re separate from each other; they’re not one thing. But the first one is a longer one, about 36-38 minutes, and so it’s a whole story—it’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. We have Ralph as Roald Dahl, and Benedict Cumberbatch and Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade and Ben Kingsley, who’s great. It’s kind of an unusual form for the storytelling that we do, because my way into it was that I realized that what I liked were his words. The way the stories are told in Roald Dahl’s words.”
“Just turning it into a movie, you can lose his words, by and large. We decided not to lose his words. When you see it, you’ll see what I mean. We use the words.”
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Who is in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar cast?
The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Henry Sugar, Ralph Fiennes as Roald Dahl, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, Rupert Friend, and Richard Ayoade.
There is no official release date.