Academy Award nominee Wes Anderson’s next film just received quite the casting boost. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley have boarded Wes Anderson’s newest feature, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short story collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More that’s set to be released at Netflix.
Anderson wrote the script and is directing the adaptation; shooting gets underway this month in the U.K. The project is the first to go since Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company in fall 2021 in a blockbuster deal that gave the streamer rights to the author’s entire catalog.
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