The BFG

The BFG (2016) is an adaptation of a beloved children’s book by Roald Dahl. The film featured Rylance as the titular “big friendly giant.” Though his fellow giants prefer to dine on human children and wreak havoc, the BFG (named Runt) subsists on vegetables and…

…in Spielberg’s 2016 adaptation of The BFG, Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book about a “big friendly giant” and the girl who becomes his friend and ally.

…BFG (1982; films 1989 and 2016), and The Witches (1983; films 1990 and 2020). One of his last such books, Matilda, was adapted for film in 1996 and 2022 and for the stage in 2010. Its title character is a precocious but neglected young girl with telekinetic powers who uses…