The Twits

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As part of a multi-picture deal with Walt Disney Pictures, Vanguard was set to produce a CG animated/live-action film, with John Cleese and Kirk DeMicco writing the screenplay.

Down in their garden, the ghastly, evil Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. The chief of these are the Muggle-Wumps, the Twits’ family of pet monkeys from their days as circus trainers. I firmly believe the reason why Dahl's books seem to strike such a chord with my children is precisely BECAUSE they are so dark.

The monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits so that they can escape and put a stop to the frightful pair once and for all! The decision was met with sharp criticism from groups and public figures including authors Salman Rushdie [8] [9] and Christopher Paolini, [10] British prime minister Rishi Sunak, [8] [9] Queen Camilla, [8] [11] [12] Kemi Badenoch, [13] PEN America, [8] [9] and Brian Cox. During the story four schoolboys are caught instead of birds, but escape by unfastening their trousers and falling to the ground outside the Twits' garden after Mr. Few other books would have said horrible characters meet their end by standing upside-down permanently until their upper body parts eventually dissolve into their lower ones. In November 2004, Mark Mylod signed up to direct the feature, while Cleese was attached to star in the film.

I can imagine the hours of delight that rereading this would bring - as it did for my goddaughter when she was about 9 or 10.On a Tuesday night, a group of four boys see the ladder next to this tree and they decided to walk up into it, not thinking or knowing that glue was on it. Twit pretends to tie some more strings to her ankles, before cutting through the strings and sending her skywards. Twit feel that she is shrinking, he slowly extended her chair and cane until she was convinced that she was getting shorter.