Giant
“A world-famous children's author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends.”
2026•2h 16m•Post Production
Drama
Set in the summer of 1983, just before the release of The Witches, Giant imagines a tense meeting between Roald Dahl and his American and British publishers as they scramble to contain the fallout from his public denunciation of Israel and defence of the Palestinians in a review of a book on the 1982 Lebanon war. Filmed live onstage at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in 2025.
Director
Nicholas Hytner
Writer
Mark Rosenblatt
Languages
English
Studio
Trafalgar Releasing
Cast
John Lithgow
Roald Dahl
Elliot Levey
Aya Cash
Rachael Stirling
Tessa Bonham Jones
Richard Hope
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