Recently, news came about Netflix. Netflix is going to acquire the entire catalog of books of Roald Dahl. Roald is a children’s story author. He expresses his meaningful and knowledgeable thoughts through his short stories. Let’s find more about this news.
About Acquisition of Catalog of Roald Dahl-
The acquisition of the full catalog of Roald will be a great and huge achievement for Netflix. Earlier, the company has only 10 acquisitions with the company. Bloomberg till now didn’t report about the price tag. They just highlight the earlier deal of Netflix with Roald Dahl. He further added, ” among the biggest ever for kids and family programming, worth USD 500 million to USD 1 billion” at the time. The agreement allowed Netflix to develop animated series based on the author’s books. The new agreement will be out soon. Currently, Netflix is shooting a movie based on the book ” Matilda”. It will premiere in 2022. Earlier it was delayed due to pandemics. There are many other books also on which Netflix is working and will release them soon. One such is ” The Charlie and Chocolate Factory”. It will be a prequel film of a Willy Wonka. Other movies are also been made earlier based on books like ” The Witches “, “Matilda” and ” James and Giant Peach”. Wishing the company all the best. Fans are crazy about this new agreement and are excited about the new launch of movies based on the series.
Earlier Agreements of Netflix with Roald Dahl-
The initial agreement of Netflix with Roald Dahl is about rights to different characters of Roald’s story. The different characters include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, The Twits, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Boy – Tales of Childhood, Going Solo, The Enormous Crocodile, The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, Henry Sugar, Billy, and the Minpins, The Magic Finger, Esio Trot, Dirty Beasts, and Rhyme Stew, etc. But confirmed project on which Netflix is working is ” The Chocolate Factory”.
Rumours about Netflix-
Three years ago, it came to the news that Netflix is developing a project based on Dahl’s stories. In March 2020, it was revealed that Taika Waititi is launching an animated show based on ” The Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Roald Dahl’s stories are being used by many other studios also. But how then Netflix is going to use it is still not out.