Steven Spielberg to film adaption of 'The BFG'

According to this, its seems the master of enchantment himself Steven Spielberg will be adapting Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book The BFG for the big screen, with filming expecting to begin in 2015.

I remember watching the animated version when I was a kid and really liking it, as well as the book itself - then again, Rotten Tomatoes has this nasty habit of confirming that most of my favourite non-Pixar movies from childhood were, in fact, garbage. I mean, there was a streak of a couple of years where I thought the live-action Thunderbirds was one of the greatest movies ever. If you click that link, you'll see that its actually on par, ratings wise, with Ice Cube's latest movie Ride Along (though if they would have cast Thunderbirds with the guys from NWA, I would watch the shit out of that). 

But I do have really high hopes for the BFG movie, because even Spielberg's least memorable films have a great track record. And with similar 'childlike-wonder-meets-otherwise-terrifying-monster' movies like E.T. and Jurassic Park under his belt, he's probably the best man for the job - though a part of me secretly wants to see the Michael Bay version of this, where the main character, Sophie, is a barely-legal stripper dragged into an increasingly-violent adventure by an 80-foot tall William Fichtner. 

Casting speculations are a mystery to me (which means I failed at least one part of being a film blogger) but methinks Tom Hanks should (read: probably will) be involved somehow. It would also be cool to see Daniel Day Lewis get cast as the titular giant, just to see him be mentally tortured trying to method-act being ridiculously tall .

"No, seriously. I'm a fucking giant. Now sit down and let me eat you alive."

Hopefully this rumour is true (the original source for the article is from Dahl's Website), but then again the BBC also reported the straight-up lie that all North Koreans have to get a Kim Jong-Un haircut, so I guess that means you can trust exactly 0% of news outlets these days.