ROALD DAHL'S THE TWITS BEING TURNED INTO AN ANIMATED MOVIE ADVENTURE AT NETFLIX

  ROALD DAHL'S THE TWITS  

MOVIE ADAPTATION AT NETFLIX

Netflix and Oscar nominated Phil Johnston are going to turn Roald Dahl's THE TWITS into a 2025 animated movie with the help of JellyFish Pictures. Children's favourite book follows the nasty Mr. and Mrs. Twit, who also own and operate a disgusting and dangerous amusement park, Twitlandia. When the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals will be forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city.

IT'S A TRAGIC HEARTACHE FOR WRITER ROALD DAHL AND HIS WIFE HOLLYWOOD DIVA PATRICIA NEAL IN TO OLIVIA BIOPIC TRAILER WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, KEELEY HAWES, SAM HEUGHAN

   TO OLIVIA MOVIE TRAILER   

STARRING HUGH BONNEVILLE AND KEELEY HAWES

To Olivia is based on a tragic true story

Sky has released the trailer for their movie biopic which will air on Sky Cinema and also in theatres this February TO OLIVIA (formerly known as An Unquiet Life) based on a true story and starring Hugh Bonne- ville asRoald Dahl and Keeley Hawes as his wife, famous Hollywood actress andOscar winner Patricia Neal. Inspiring and heart-warming, TO OLIVIA features an all British cast which also includes Sam Heughan (as Paul Newman), Geoffrey Palmer and Conleth

John Hay directed and co/wrote the film for Sky

 Hill, with John Hay (Lost Christmas, There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble) as the director. Check out the trailer below the post.

HEARTACHE OF FAMILY TRAGEDY

  It’s 1962 and Roald Dahl, an eccentric, burgeoning children’s author and his wife, Patricia Neal, a glamourous Hollywood movie star, have retreated to

Keeley Hawes plays Patricia Neal who had affairs with Ronald Reagan and Gary Cooper whose daughter even spat on her once publicly for it. She even aborted a child with him.

the English countryside to bring up their expanding young family. Tragically, their lives are turned upside down by the devastating death of their daughter Olivia (whom they lost to measles when she was seven just a week after she

Hugh Bonneville plays Roald, the author of Fantastic Mr. Fox, James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Big Friendly Giant

contracted the disease) and as the couple struggle through the unimaginable loss, their shared grief becomes a source of redemption and strength which changes their lives forever.

 Life Filled With Tragedies  
His books enchanted many generations of children,  but Dahl's private life was one punctuated by tragedy after his and Patricia's daughter Olivia died at the age of seven in 1962. Six years after that he will dedicate Fantastic Mr.

Keeley speaks American in the film playing the American star Patricia who admitted that she never actually loved Dahl whom she divorced in 1983, a few  years before his death

Fox to Olivia. Back in New York, they also survived a horrific accident in which their four-month-old son Theo was struck by a taxi, while in his pram,

The movie will also play in available cinemas in February

sustaining brain damages. When Patricia was pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy, she suffered a stroke which left her partially paralysed and blind and unable to speak. Dahl then imposed a grueling recovery regime on his wife

The movie will air on Sky Cinema this February

that has since largely been adopted as the standard therapy for all stroke victims. To surprise of everyone, she returned to work later on and won another Oscar nomination. 

 

ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE, WIFE AND MOTHER OF KINGS, GETTING AN EPIC SERIES AT STARZ! FIRST PHOTOS OF DAWN FRENCH IN SKY'S FESTIVE COMEDY ROALD & BEATRIX: THE TAIL OF A CURIOUS MOUSE

  ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE  

EPIC TV SERIES AT STARZ

Well, I did always wonder how she did not get a series before, being the mother of Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland, the wife of two kings and witness to so many major historical events. As Deadline reports, Starz has

Playground Pictures is producing the series

optioned the rights to historian Alison Weir’s biography ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE: A Life and its companion novel Captive Queen for the first series which will be written by Cranford's and Discovery Of Witches writer Susie Conklin! Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages, born in 1122 and dying in 1204. She was queen of France and England as a result of her marriages to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England and was independently the duchess of Aquitaine. Together with Playground Pictures, Starz is planning a whole slate of series based on the lives of female historical figures.

 

  ROALD AND BEATRIX  

1ST CHRISTMAS PHOTOS ARE IN

Beside the festive episode of Channel 5's hit series All Creatures Great And Small, another thing we can expect this Christmas on the small screens is Sky One's ROALD AND BEATRIX: THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS

Dawn French and Harry Tayler are leading the cast

MOUSE uplifting hour and a half long comedy drama starring Britain's most beloved female comedian Dawn French, which will be the key highlight of

It will be a ninety minute long festive TV movie

Sky Ones and Now TV's Christmas schedule. Sky has released the first photos which show the festive atmosphere and magic we will be able to enjoy these holidays.

  Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse

 is inspired by the true story of when a six-year old Roald Dahl set off on a big adventure to meet his favourite author, Beatrix Potter. It’s a

The festive movie will air on Sky One and Now TV in UK

magical story of what can happen when you are brave enough to follow your dreams… Joining Dawn French will be a cast including Jessica Hynes,

British thespian Rob Brydon also stars in the movie

Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Nina Sosanya, Bill Bailey and Nick Mohammed, and introducing Harry Tayler as the young Roald Dahl. As you

Hartswoods Films has produced the movie for Sky One

know Beatrix Potter is the author of children's favourite Peter the Rabit, while Roald Dahl created a whole slate of stories which have made so many

Harry Tayler plays the young Roald Dahl

childhoods more enjoyable from Witches, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Jack and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Big Friendly Giant. It is also interesting that Dawn French will also do three ten minute

Sky has commissioned a number of other original programmes

Christmas episodes of her classic hit comedy The Vicar of Dibley, and you also know that a feature film about Roald Dahl is also in the works with Hugh Bonneville and Keley Hawes as his Hollywood star wife.

A MEETING OF TWO FAMOUS CHILDREN WRITERS ROALD DAHL AND BEATRIX POTTER IN SKY'S TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE FESTIVE MOVIE WITH DAWN FRENCH

   DAWN FRENCH TO LEAD

THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE

Dawn  French will play Beatrix Potter

We've enjoyed her theatrics this spring in Trouble With Maggie Cole series, but British comedian Dawn French has something planned for the holidays already. She will star in THE TAIL OF THE CURIOUS MOUSE a holiday movie scheduled for December at Sky One, inspired by the true story of when a young Roald Dahl met his hero, Beatrix Potter. This is the official plot of the heart warming Christmas drama:

   With Beatrix coming to the end of her career and Roald aged only six and having recently lost his father and sister, this meeting of two literary legends was to have an enormous impact on the lives of both writers!

 As you know Roald Dahl is the writer of Fantastic Mr. Fox, James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Big Friendly Giant, while Beatrix Potter wrote the famous adventures of Peter Rabbit!

1ST PHOTOS FROM ROALD DAHL AND PATRICIA NEAL BIOPIC WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE, KEELEY HAWES, SAM HEUGHAN!

     1ST 'TO OLIVIA' PHOTOS

FROM A ROALD DAHL BIOPIC!

Some of you have probably heard of the famous marriage between legendary writer Roald Dahl and Oscar winning actress Patricia Neal: it was so tempestuous that a film titled TO OLIVIA (formerly known as An Unquiet

Hugh Bonneville plays Roald, the author of Fantastic Mr. Fox, James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The Big Friendly Giant

Life) has been produced on it starring Hugh Bonneville and Keeley Hawes alongside Sam Heughan who plays Paul Newman in it. Today we have first photos from it.

  Life Filled With Tragedies  
His books enchanted many generations of children,  but Dahl's private life was one punctuated by tragedy after his and Patricia's daughter Olivia died at the age of seven in 1962. Six years after that he will dedicate Fantastic Mr.

Keeley Hawes plays Patricia Neal who had affairs with Ronald Reagan and Gary Cooper whose daughter even spat on her once publicly for it. She even aborted a child with him.

Fox to Olivia. Back in New York, they also survived a horrific accident in which their four-month-old son Theo was struck by a taxi, while in his pram, sustaining brain damages. When Patricia was pregnant with their fifth child, Lucy, she suffered a stroke which left her partially paralysed and blind and

Keeley speaks American in the film playing the American star Patricia who admitted that she never actually loved Dahl whom she divorced in 1983, a few  years before his death

unable to speak. Dahl then imposed a gruelling recovery regime on his wife that has since largely been adopted as the standard therapy for all stroke victims. To surprise of everyone, she returned to work later on and won another Oscar nomination.