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via Eon Productions A massive can of worms was opened last week when it was revealed the back catalogue of Roald Dahl novels were being re-edited to remove content deemed as offensive before going back into print, so you can only imagine how both literature and cinema fans reacted upon discovering that Ian Fleming’s James Bond was being given the same treatment. While Dahl may have been a widely-beloved author who penned a litany of children’s classics, his personal opinions and beliefs left a bad taste in a…

The Roald Dahl purists have won. After a week of controversy and outrage over imposed sensitivity changes to the words of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory author, publisher Puffin has announced that a collection of 17 Dahl works will be re-released untouched as part of the Roald Dahl Classic Collection. Netflix, which purchased the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2021 in a rumored $1 billion deal, had no comment on the development. “We’ve listened to the debate over the past week, which…

The British publisher of Roald Dahl’s children’s books will release the classic versions of his stories along with updated editions rewritten in an effort to make them more acceptable to contemporary readers. Seventeen of Mr. Dahl’s best-known books will be released in their unaltered form later this year as “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection,” Penguin Random House said Friday.  Those books, published under the company’s Penguin logo, will be…

A collection of Roald Dahl’s books with unaltered text is to be published after a row over changes made to novels including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Witches.Dahl’s publisher, the Penguin Random House children’s imprint Puffin, was criticised this week for hiring sensitivity readers to go over his books, resulting in the removal or change of language deemed to be offensive. In response, it is to release Dahl’s works in their original versions, alongside its new texts.Changes to Dahl’s books include using…

Roald Dahl’s children’s books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by the publisher Puffin.Puffin has hired sensitivity readers to rewrite chunks of the author’s text to make sure the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”, resulting in extensive changes across Dahl’s work.Edits have been made to descriptions of characters’ physical appearances. The word “fat” has been cut from every new edition of relevant books, while the word “ugly” has also been culled, the Daily Telegraph reported.Augustus…

Critics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colourful language from works such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda to make them more acceptable to modern readers.A review of new editions of Dahl’s books now available in bookstores shows that some passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered. The changes made by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House, first were reported by Britain’s Daily Telegraph…

In the current television landscape, it’s becoming increasingly rare for a show to get a second season, let alone the 11, critically acclaimed seasons that Letterkenny has delivered to its fans. The award-winning Canadian sitcom about the residents of a fictional town in rural Ontario chronicles the interactions between the town’s various cliques — informally known as hicks, skids, hockey players, natives, and degens — amid a steady stream of brisk dialogue, ham-fisted brawls, Canadian colloquialisms, and even the…

Matilda the Musical was created as part of a deal between Sony and Netflix, and the streaming service is also working on a series based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from Thor director Taika Waititi and Phil Johnston, the screenwriter behind Zootopia and Wreck-It Ralph. While both of those projects have been in the works since before the acquisition, Netflix says that they’re just the beginning now that it has access to the entire catalog. (They’re also an important tool for competing with Disney Plus, which has a…

Emma Thompson and Tim Minchin make a very tasty combination in this DayGlo movie musical for the London film festival’s opening gala – amusing, exhilarating and the tiniest bit exhausting. It’s based on the award-winning RSC stage version of Roald Dahl’s bestseller about Matilda, the clever, lonely little girl with secret X-Men-type superpowers, sent away to a horrible school run by a hideous disciplinarian called Miss Trunchbull, like a cross between a weapon and an attack dog.Weapon-grade … Emma Thompson as Agatha…

Nerves are always high on the opening night of the London film festival. But when this year’s edition begins on Wednesday, it won’t just be the cast, crew and British Film Institute bigwigs who anxiously await audience reaction.The world premiere that kicks off proceedings is Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, which marks a first opportunity to see the fruits of Netflix’s most expensive content deal to date: the back catalogue of the children’s author.The streaming service bought the rights to Dahl’s works for £370m early…