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Giant

Giant
2026•2h 16m•MA 15+•Drama

A world-famous children's author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends.

Set in the summer of 1983, just before the release of The Witches, Giant imagines a tense meeting between Roald Dahl and his American and British publishers as they scramble to contain the fallout from his public denunciation of Israel and defence of the Palestinians in a review of a book on the 1982 Lebanon war. Filmed live onstage at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in 2025.

Mark Rosenblatt · Writer

Nicholas Hytner · Director

StatusPost Production
Runtime2h 16m
LanguageEN
Release DateNov 19, 2026

Actors

John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Roald Dahl

Elliot Levey

Elliot Levey

Aya Cash

Aya Cash

Rachael Stirling

Rachael Stirling

Tessa Bonham Jones

Tessa Bonham Jones

Richard Hope

Richard Hope

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