![]() ![]() The three creators of the Matilda musical walked Playbill through some of the biggest changes that their musical went through on the journey from the stage to the screen. Since the book’s publication in 1988, Matilda has inspired generations of fans, teaching important life lessons such as how to find your voice and use it, and that chosen family is just as valid as birth family. But Matilda is a genius with magical telekinetic powers, which she uses (with the guidance of the kind Miss Honey) to lead her classmates to liberation and to help them stand up to their bullies. Matilda is based on the Roald Dahl novel of the same name, about a young girl who is mistreated by her parents and is sent to a school where the headmistress Miss Trunchbull abuses all the children there. ![]() ![]() “It was an opportunity to do new things with it.” He then adds, with excitement, “We were just able to go mental with it.” “We knew quite early on that we weren't just going to do the stage show,” says Kelly, who wrote the book for Matilda and the film’s screenplay. Though the creators admit that movie musicals are “inherently difficult to do,” in the words of the film's director Warchus (who oversaw Matilda on the West End and on Broadway), they also relished the challenge of reconceptualizing their musical anew. “I don't think I could have done what Matthew and Dennis did, which is to just really reimagine it and completely change the script-just fundamentally change it, and yet you come out feeling like you've seen the same story.” “Usually people find it hard to truly throw out what they need to throw out in order to make the jump ,” says Minchin. He speaks admiringly of his colleagues Kelly and Warchus-all three artists have the rare honor of being creators who got to oversee the film adaptation of their stage property. “Oh Christ, it's completely different,” says composer Minchin when talking about the differences between the stage show and the film adaptation, which is currently playing on Netflix. When Matthew Warchus, Dennis Kelly, and Tim Minchin set out to adapt their Olivier- and Tony-winning Matilda the Musical into a film, they knew they would have to kill some of their babies. ![]()
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