Wes Anderson’s next Roald Dahl adaptation will be a short film for Netflix
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“Suddenly, in essence, there was nowhere else you could do it since they own it,” Anderson said. “Beyond it, because it’s a 37-minute movie, it was the perfect place to do it because it’s not really a movie. You know, they used to do these BBC things called “Play for Today” directed by people like Steven Frears and John Schlesinger and Alan Clarke. They were one-hour programs or even less. I kind of envisioned something like that.”may lack runtime, but not star power.
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