Netflix buys Wonka author Dahl's catalog

Netflix has acquired the works of Roald Dahl, the precocious British writer of celebrated children's books specified arsenic "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

The video streaming elephantine said Wednesday that it acquired the Roald Dahl Story Co., which manages the rights to the author's characters and stories. No fiscal presumption were disclosed.

The woody builds connected a concern struck successful 2018 to make a slate of animated TV series, nether which "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is getting a reboot by Academy Award winning filmmaker Taika Waititi and Netflix is moving with Sony connected an adaptation of "Matilda the Musical."

The caller woody paves the mode for Netflix to bring each of the author's backmost catalogue to screens.

"These projects opened our eyes to a overmuch much ambitious task - the instauration of a unsocial beingness crossed animated and unrecorded enactment films and TV, publishing, games, immersive experiences, unrecorded theatre, consumer products and more," Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Luke Kelly, managing manager of the Roald Dahl Story Co. and Dahl's grandson, said successful a associated statement.

Dahl died successful 1990 astatine the property of 74 but his books, which besides see "The BFG," "The Twits" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox," stay fashionable with young readers, with much than 300 cardinal copies sold worldwide and translations successful 63 languages.

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