Director Steven Spielberg has signed on to shoot a live-action version of Roald Dahl's classic children's book, The BFG (short for The Big Friendly Giant) according to The Hollywood Reporter. DreamWorks acquired rights to the book a few years back, but Spielberg is now "officially committing" himself to direct based on a script from Melissa Mathison, who wrote Spielberg's own E.T.
It's not the first time The BFG has been adapted for the screen. An animated British version was released in the late 1980s, though it was met with tepid reviews. (You can watch that whole film on YouTube and judge for yourself.)
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