The Bfg: Danny, The Champion Of The World

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Sophie thinks the witching hour is at 3:00 AM even if everybody else thinks it is at midnight. She knows she's not supposed to get out of bed, never go to the window and never look behind the curtain but she does it anyway.

Ruby Barnhill plays Sophie in Disney's new movie, a Steven Spielberg adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG.

In 1989, an animated film version based on the book by Roald Dahl was also shown with David Jason as the voice of the Big Fat Giant and Amanda Roots as Sophie. The children's book published in 1982 had illustrations by Quentin Blake. The BFG however is an expansion Dahl's 1975 story book titled Danny, the Champion of the World.

The upcoming Spielberg fantasy film will be a live adaptation of the book and is currently

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