Mathilda: The Musical’s First Trailer Is Revolting

Astonishingly, you’re looking at an image of Dame Emma Thompson. I do know, I can scarcely consider it both, however that is simply a part of the magic of Netflix’s upcoming movie adaptation of the award-winning, internationally profitable musical of Mathilda, primarily based on the beloved youngsters’s story by Roald Dahl about somewhat lady with telekinesis who will get pressured right into a horrifying boarding faculty run by the much more horrifying character performed by Thompson.

If you don’t know Mathilda the guide—which was additionally become a wonderful 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito—it has the identical kind of darkness present in Dahl’s books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Mathilda is a precocious, good five-year-old who’s uncared for by her terrible, abusive mother and father till, after just a few pranks, they ship her to a boarding faculty run by the much more terrible Miss Trunchbull; there, Mathilda befriends the good trainer Miss Honey (right here performed by Lashawna Lynch) and discovers she has telekinesis, which she makes use of to guard herself and different college students from Trunchbull’s cruelty. It’s much more enjoyable than it could sound!

The musical adaptation, which debuted in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2010, was and is a bona fide hit, profitable a then-record variety of seven Olivier Awards and since taking part in in international locations the world over, in no small half because of critically acclaimed songs like “Revolting Children.” So it’s no surprise Netflix determined to scoop up a film model, whose trailer debuted at the moment:

I truthfully can’t recover from the truth that that’s Emma Thomspon as Trunchbull. I’ve nothing intelligent to say about this, it’s simply… wow. Right?!

Mathilda: The Musical hits Netflix on December 25, a transparent indicator that the streamer believes loads of households shall be pleased to spend their Christmas days watching it collectively. They’re most likely proper!

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