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The tale of a young girl, the Queen of England and a benevolent giant known as the BFG, who set out on an adventure to capture the evil, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.

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The tale of a young girl, the Queen of England and a benevolent giant known as the BFG, who set out on an adventure to capture the evil, man-eating giants who have been invading the human world.

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John Williams will be back to do the music score for "The BFG." Spielberg and Williams have not worked together on Spielberg's previous movie "Bridge of Spies". They have not worked together only three times in 42 years. See more »

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Odd choice for Spielberg. NutNut
Any Quake Fans who also related with this? xD the-webminster
I don't understand how they will be able to pull this off swettypaws
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Rylance is perfect. PolythenePaul
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