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Netflix's The Twits tosses out Roald Dahl's book. The director explains.

Four years ago, Netflix bought The Roald Dahl Story Company — and with it, the rights to the entire catalog of books by the famous British author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, ...
Yahoo

‘The Twits’ Review: Unruly Roald Dahl Adaptation Is Tastier Than a Bowl of Worms, If You Like That Sort of Thing

In the twisted children’s novel “The Twits,” Road Dahl describes the repulsive state of Mr. Twit’s facial hair with relish, lingering on details like the “maggoty green cheese” and “slimy tail of a ...
Cartoon Brew

‘A Strange Baby, But It’s Ours’: Phil Johnston On Bringing ‘The Twits’ To Life At Netflix

When audiences meet Mr. and Mrs. Twit on Netflix this week, they won’t find the glossy, feel-good world typical of family animation. Instead, they’ll be hurled headfirst into a stylized CG adaptation ...
Polygon

Netflix's latest Roald Dahl adaptation throws out most of the book. The director told us why.

But the movie — directed and co-written by Phil Johnston, a writer on Wreck-it Ralph and Zootopia and co-director of Ralph Breaks the Internet — likely isn’t what any Dahl aficionado was expecting. It ...
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See the Cast of “The Twits” Side-by-Side with the Zany Characters They Play

Rotten, repulsive and delightfully twisted — the cast of The Twits leaps from author Roald Dahl’s pages into vivid life in Netflix’s new animated adaptation. Johnston told Cartoon Brew that the movie ...
Decider

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Twits’ on Netflix, a Grosser-Than-Gross Animated Roald Dahl Adaptation

The Twits (now on Netflix) opens on a halcyonic Disney vibe with swelling strings and choir and then it KABOOFs out of existence like goodness repelled from the room by rancid flatulence. Nice things ...