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Roald Dahl’s Matilda is getting a movie makeover once again. We first saw the children’s story adapted to screen in 1996, starring Mara Wilson, Rhea Perlman, and Danny Devito.  
This time around, Matilda the Musical, is based on the stage play, which kicked off in 2010. It’s currently in theaters, having premiered on November 25. Anglo favorite Dame Emma Thompson takes on the titular role of head mistress Miss Trunchbull. It’s an odd choice of vocation for someone who clearly is not keen on children.
Thompson has put her own spin on the classic character, saying, "In the book [Trunchbull] shouts all the time, all the time she just shouts, and in the movie she's quite quiet a lot of the time because Matthew [Warchus — film's director] wanted her to be genuinely sinister,” reports Sky News.
She doesn't stop there, giving praise to the author: "But it's that thing with Dahl isn't it, of something that's genuinely threatening but in a kind of delicious way - like Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, in James and The Giant Peach.”
Thompson sums up her thoughts on the matter, saying, "When I was growing up and reading Dahl, I just loved that sense of genuine jeopardy. And I also thought that he saw human darkness very clearly and yet was able to write it into children's stories and make it possible for us to read them when we were little and understand that it's a real thing -- darkness and cruelty to children."
That is a good point. While these stories may fall under fantastical, they can be considered cautionary.
In case you missed it, here’s a peek at the trailer for the recently released movie:

You can look for Alisha Weir in the title role and Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough as her parents.
We can’t get enough of Emma Thompson. What about you?