Benedict Cumberbatch as Henry Sugar and Wes Anderson (Director) in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Cr. Roger Do Minh/Netflix ©2023
Netflix is providing you with one other method to watch its assortment of Wes Anderson shorts, together with The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, which netted the streamer an Oscar. Due out on March fifteenth globally, Netflix is repackaging the 4 shorts right into a simplified film.
The brief film win was the one win for Netflix on the Oscars, bringing their whole tally of wins to 23 towards their 155 whole nominations.
Following the win on the 96th Oscars, Netflix shared a quote from Wes Anderson celebrating his win:
“If I could have been there, I (along with Steven Rales) would have said “Thank you” to: the household of Roald Dahl, the workforce at Netflix, Benedict and Ralph and Ben Kingsley and Dev and Richard and Bob and Adam and Jeremy and John and Jim and Rich and Jim and Polly and extra.
And additionally I might have stated: if i had not met Owen Wilson in a hall on the University of Texas between lessons once I was 18 years outdated, I would definitely not be receiving this award tonight — however sadly Steven and I are in Germany and we begin taking pictures our new film early tomorrow morning, so I didn’t really obtain the award or get an opportunity to say any of that.” – Wes Anderson
As you could know, Netflix launched The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar alongside three different brief movies within the ultimate week of September 2023. Those different shorts included Poison, The Rat Catcher, and The Swan. Almost overshadowed by the first brief, this new repackaged model will see all of them grouped collectively in a steady runtime. The shorts are additionally anticipated to stay impartial titles on Netflix.
The whole runtime of the brand new film can be 88 minutes and 6 seconds. That’s shorter than the mixed runtime of the titles that run for 92 minutes.
Rumors of additional shorts additionally surfaced in direction of the top of 2024. WorldOfReel, not citing any sources, states that a minimum of “two more shorts” had been filmed and haven’t been launched but, one in all which adapts the Roald Dahl story Lucky Break.
Either manner, Netflix has quite a lot of Roald Dahl initiatives within the works, with the subsequent dated undertaking at the moment being The Twits, due out in 2025.
For extra on what’s coming to Netflix all through March 2024 – hold it locked right here on What’s on Netflix.
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