With a budget of this size, it makes more sense for Netflix to own the Dahl library outright. The streaming giant plans to build out a sweeping flood of programming from the British novelist’s trove of stories including Charlie, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and scores more.ĭahl’s deal with Netflix grows out of a deal signed in 2018 to produce a slate of animated TV shows, one of which is based on Willy Wonka’s orange-skinned, green-haired Oompa Loompa candy makers, for $1 billion. In September, 31 years after Dahl died of cancer at age 74, Netflix paid a reported $684 million for the Roald Dahl Story Company.
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