Major corporations and governments must have been knocking down her door, but I can’t see her working with them, at least not for long her anti-authoritarian streak runs too deep.

Besides, Matilda is a polymath, and polymaths don’t tend to stick to one specialty. I imagine she would tire of Oxbridge or Ivy League elitism, however: academia can be stifling, competitive, unjust, all the things she always hated. I have no doubt that she would have several degrees. Matilda, I fully believe, has the wits and work ethic to have gotten into any university she wanted and studied whatever she liked. Courtesy of Quentin Blake.Īcademia must have called to her. Hollywood would be lucky to have Matilda on its team. I saw how the magic was actually done-though special effects are magical, in their own Arthur C. Hundreds have told me that after seeing the movie, they tried to move glasses or slam doors using their mind.

Even now, when people approach me about Matilda-the 1996 film in which I played the title role-they always want to know more about her magic powers. “Hey, Matilda! Show us your magic powers!”įrom elementary school to college, I heard that at least once a week. How could someone so self-actualized, who had learned and done so much as a child, ever really grow up? Would she continue to inspire others, the way the book and film about her continue to do? What do you do when you’ve read every book in the library and banished a tyrant by age seven? For a long time, it was hard for me to imagine what she would be like as an adult. But in the book, as well as the film and musical based on the novel, she’s forever a child. and Dahl’s grandson, said in a joint statement.If we count the book as her birthdate, she would be 30 years old this autumn. “These projects opened our eyes to a much more ambitious venture – the creation of a unique universe across animated and live action films and TV, publishing, games, immersive experiences, live theatre, consumer products and more,” Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Luke Kelly, managing director of the Roald Dahl Story Co. The new deal paves the way for Netflix to bring all of the author’s back catalogue to screens. The deal builds on a partnership struck in 2018 to create a slate of animated TV series, under which “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is getting a reboot by Academy Award winning filmmaker Taika Waititi and Netflix is working with Sony on an adaptation of “Matilda the Musical.” “We are now about to visit the most marvellous places and see the most wonderful things.” /kc22Gmfhmx- Netflix UK & Ireland September 22, 2021 Excited to announce that the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) and Netflix are joining forces to bring some of the world's most loved stories to current and future fans in creative new ways.

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