The 39-minute film is an adaptation of a 1977 short story by Roald Dahl.
The wonderful story of Henry Sugar is the latest from Wes Anderson.
The wonderful story of Henry Sugarthe new of Wes Anderson comes to Netflix. The 39-minute film is an adaptation of a 1977 short story by Roald Dahl.
What The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is about
Described as an “extremely faithful” adaptation of the tale from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, the film centers on Sugar (Benedict Cumberbatch), a rich man who learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes and then sets his sights on him to try to master the skill so he can cheat at games of chance.
Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley and Richard Ayoade They also star. Anderson, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson are producers.
The director of photography is Robert D. Yeomanwho accompanied Wes Anderson in several of his works developed in the last two decades.
The semi-short premiered out of competition at the 80th Venice Film Festival on September 1. Anderson was honored with the festival’s Gloria Filmmaker Award during the Lido event.
Roald Dahl’s work on Netflix
The production will be the first in a list made up of three other short films that combine the fanciful stories of Dahl, one of the most renowned children’s writers of the last century – with titles such as “Matilda” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”-, and the characteristic aesthetic of symmetries and color contrasts with which the director made a name for himself in the industry since his rise to fame with “Rushmore” (1998) and “The Eccentric Tenenbaums” (2001).
In that sense, despite not yet having defined release dates, versions of the stories will soon arrive on the Red N platform. “The Cisne”about a teenager who is tortured by two “bullies”; “The deratizer”, which follows a rodent exterminator and his unique methods of capturing the vermin; and “Venom,” centered on an English man in India who tries to be saved by a doctor and his partner after a poisonous snake falls asleep on him.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar comes to Netflix on September 27.
Source: Ambito
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