Filmmaker Wes Anderson's adaptation of Roald Dahl story The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Following the premiere, the director confirmed that the film will serve as the first part of a larger anthology that will also have three other short films titled, The Swan, Poison and The Ratcatcher.
At the festival, the filmmaker called the short films to be "very, very strange", which all be based on Roald Dahl. However, Anderson did not reveal the additional details of the shorts.
“There’s another one that’s in the Henry Sugar collection that’s called The Swan, we’ve done that with Rupert Friend. We did a very old one called Poison, which is one I always loved…and then we’ve also done a very, very strange one called Ratcatcher, which is from a book called Claud’s Dog, a kind of obscure Dahl book set in the Eastern part of England. It’s a really rural one, it’s a peculiar story. And they’re all strange. But I don’t really have any other ones in mind. I have some things brewing, but that might be it for Dahl for the moment,” Anderson was quoted as saying.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel, Richard Ayoade. It could be expected that the cast might appear in other shorts. It will be released in selected theatres on September 20 and stream on Netflix on September 27.
