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Sophie, a ten-year-old orphan in London, is awake late at night, in what she calls the witching hour. From her window she sees a giant in the street. He reaches into her room, lifts her from her bed, and carries her to his home in Giant Country. She thinks he means to eat her, but he says he eats neither children nor people, only a foul vegetable called a snozzcumber. He took her, he explains, so that she would not tell anyone that giants exist. He is far smaller than the other giants of Giant Country, who taunt him and call him runt, and he speaks an odd vocabulary.
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- Chris Gibbsas Gizzardgulper / Late Night Walker
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The BFG (2016)
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- In 1998, screenwriters Robin Swicord and Nicholas Kazan wrote a BFG adaptation with Robin Williams in talks for the title role, but Williams' improvisational style clashed with the giant's invented language and a read-through went badly, according to Michael Siegel.
- Ten-year-old Ruby Barnhill, a student at Lower Peover School, auditioned and had to learn six pages of dialogue for the orphan Sophie before being cast on December 16, 2014, after a lengthy search.
- Mark Rylance was cast as the BFG in October 2014, a role Steven Spielberg approached him with while the two were filming Bridge of Spies.
- Disney shifted the film from its Touchstone banner to a Walt Disney Pictures production, making The BFG the first Disney-branded film ever directed by Steven Spielberg.
- The BFG was the last film written by Melissa Mathison, who died on November 4, 2015, making it the only posthumous release of her career.
- The Hollywood Reporter estimated Disney's financial losses on The BFG could reach $90-100 million from theatrical returns alone, cushioned by the success of Captain America: Civil War and Finding Dory.
