When I was a kid, before graduating to books by authors like Stephen King and Clive Barker, I was an avid reader of Roald Dahl novels. Dahl’s books for children are full of the marvelous and macabre, ...

The release of the critically acclaimed film Wonka, an origin story based on Roald Dahl’s signature 1961 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, shows that the author (and Roald Dahl movies) still ...

Roald Dahl’s books have captured the hearts of children — and adults — for generations. His imaginative stories have made way for many popular movies. You may not even know that a handful of your ...

Key to this strategy was including the name "Willy Wonka" in the movie's title in order to reflect the planned Willy Wonka ...

For the first time in nearly two decades, a new incarnation of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka is on the big screen. However, Wonka is not directly based on Dahl’s classic children’s novel, Charlie and the ...

Oscar-nominated Phil Johnston is slated to co-write and direct the production. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Phil Johnston, the Oscar-nominated helmer of Ralph Breaks the Internet, is directing the ...

He brought us Oompa-Loompas and whizzpopping to snozzcumbers and Mrs Trunchbull. Roald Dahl’s fantastical stories cemented him as the inimitable king of nonsense, and whether we realise it or not, his ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

Now, The Fantastic Mr. Fox is unusual for a Roald Dahl story because its about animals, not children. As NPRs Elizabeth Blair reports, some of the best movie adaptations are made by filmmakers who ...