While there certainly are similarities between The BFG and The Wizard of Oz, the Steven Spielberg film is very much a special creation, and it won’t be long until you’ll have the chance to see it for yourself.
Families everywhere should definitely mark their calendars, as the new movie will be in theaters this Friday, July 1st.
As a result, you’d think that any filmmaker working on a new big-screen version of a Dahl story would reflect on these features for reference, but those projects weren’t the main focus for director Steven Spielberg in the making of the upcoming The BFG.
Instead, he actually found that The Wizard of Oz was most helpful in wrapping his brain around the fantasy tale, interestingly seeing the story as a different take on the relationship between Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion.