Jan. 12 (UPI) —<\/span> Rupert Friend and Richard Ayoade join Benedict Cumberbatch in Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short story collection The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More<\/i> for Netflix.<\/p>\n The project starts in London next week and also includes Dev Patel, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n Andersen wrote the script and is directing the project, which will be divided into three chapters with Cumberbatch as a connective thread through each one.<\/p>\n Cumberbatch will play multiple roles, including Sugar.<\/p>\n It’s unclear what roles Patel, Fiennes and Kingsley are playing.<\/p>\n The book which was published in 1982 featured both fiction and nonfiction stories.<\/p>\n It’s centered on Henry Sugar, a man who steals a book that shows him how to see through objects and predict the future.<\/p>\n His new powers spark a series of misadventures that include Mafia henchmen, setting up orphanages around the world, and working with a makeup artist to craft new identities.<\/p>\n Netflix acquired the full Dahl story catalog in September and said that it planned to create a universe of projects.\n<\/p>\n Sugar<\/i> is the third Anderson film Friend has appeared in.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1\/4 Rupert Friend, right, and Aimee Mullins attend the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2016. The actor will star in ” The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.” File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo Jan. 12 (UPI) — Rupert Friend and Richard Ayoade join Benedict Cumberbatch in Wes Anderson’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Rupert Friend, right, and Aimee Mullins attend the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2016. The actor will star in ” The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.” File Photo by Jim Ruymen\/UPI | License Photo<\/div>\n\n