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Giant
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About the film
Set in the summer of 1983, shortly before the release of The Witches, Giant imagines a tense meeting between Roald Dahl and his American and British publishers as they try to contain the fallout from his public denunciation of Israel and defence of the Palestinians in a review of a book about the 1982 Lebanon war. Filmed live onstage at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in 2025.
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Set in the summer of 1983, shortly before the release of The Witches, Giant imagines a tense meeting between Roald Dahl and his American and British publishers as they try to contain the fallout from his public denunciation of Israel and defence of the Palestinians in a review of a book about the 1982 Lebanon war. Filmed live onstage at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in 2025.
Original title
Giant - The Play
Running time
136 min
Genre
Drama
Original language
English
Director
Nicholas Hytner
Cast
John Lithgow, Elliot Levey, Aya Cash, Rachael Stirling, Tessa Bonham Jones, Richard Hope
