The BFG: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement. An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

Director Steven Spielberg once again proves that he can take a child actor/actress and pull a very good performance out of them, as we seen with E.t., Hook and artificial intelligence.

The BFG (2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Thirty four years after landing in the South of France with “E.T.,” Steven Spielberg returns to the Cannes Film Festival with “The Bfg,” based on the Roald Dahl book published in 1982. (Coincidentally, that’s the same year “E.T.” came out.)

His offbeat humour and offhand storytelling style, so irresistible to kids, rarely translates all the way to screen — it’s thwarted such titans as Steven Spielberg, who whiffed with The Bfg (Netflix), though Wes Anderson’s droll Fantastic Mr Fox succeeded by inventing eccentricities of its own.

Producer and director Steven Spielberg tried to convince Gene Wilder to make an appearance in this movie, but Wilder declined. Wilder played the title character in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), also based on a Roald Dahl book. Wilder died a month after this movie's release on August 29, 2016.

"The BFG" movie and source novel is the story of the two lonely souls who, in finding one another, create their own home in the world, which is a consistent thread in Spielberg's rich body of work.

Steven Spielberg has unveiled the first teaser for Disney’s The Bfg. The talents of three of the world’s greatest storytellers – Roald Dahl, Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg – finally unite to bring Dahl’s beloved classic “The Bfg” to life.

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