The Twits – Netflix release first look image
Netflix has released a first look image for their upcoming adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl tale The Twits.
THE TWITS (Cr: Netflix ©2023)
Published in 1980, the original book has sold 16 million copies worldwide and been translated into 41 languages, though this film marks its first ever feature-length screen adaptation. The CG animated film is slated for a 2025 release and is written (with Meg Favreau) and directed by Academy Award® nominee Phil Johnston (Ralph Breaks the Internet), alongside co-directors Katie Shanahan and Todd Demong.
I’ve always been attracted to reprehensible characters. I don’t know what this says about me, and I really don’t want to look into it. Point is, The Twits was my favourite book when I was a kid. I love the Twits and their terrible tricks. I love that they lack self-awareness and personal hygiene and any inkling of human decency. And I love this movie because it reminds us that twits like the Twits, whose default emotions are anger and vengeance, can’t be allowed to win in our world.
-Phil Johnson (Writer/Director, The Twits)
Johnston will also produce with Maggie Malone and co-producer Daisy West, with animation headed up by Jellyfish Pictures, whose prior works includes The Boss Baby and The Bad Guys.
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits’ beloved tricks–from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times, about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy.
Since its acquisition of the Roald Dahl Story Company in 2021, Netflix has been developing several Roald Dahl adaptations of which The Twits is among. Other upcoming projects in development include Wes Anderson’s live-action short film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, to be released September 27th as well as a new animated iteration of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.