Broadway’s ‘Giant,’ Starring John Lithgow, to Debut on Big Screen This Fall (EXCLUSIVE)

A filmed version of “Giant,” the Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated play starring John Lithgow as author Roald Dahl, will be released on the big screen in the fall.

“Giant,” recorded at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre with Lithgow, Aya Cash, Elliot Levey and Rachael Stirling, will play in cinemas starting on Nov. 19 in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and select international territories.

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“Giant” revolves around a 1983 scandal that forces Dahl to choose between risking his reputation or making a public apology after writing a book review that garnered backlash for being antisemitic. The Broadway production has been nominated for four Tony Awards, including best play, actor for Lithgow and featured actress for Cash. Mark Rosenblatt wrote the play, which was directed by Nicholas Hytner.

“In my 53-year, 25-show career on Broadway, I’ve rarely experienced the kind of audience response that we feel night after night with ‘Giant’,” Lithgow said. “Mark Rosenblatt has written a play of extraordinary intelligence and humanity, and with every performance I can sense the audience wrestling with its questions in real time. This is the unique power of theater at its best. I’m thrilled that our production will now reach movie theaters around the world, allowing even more people to experience the urgency, impact, and emotional force of this story.”

“Giant” joins a slew of Broadway productions, like “Six,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Hamilton,” “Come From Away” and “Waitress,” that have been preserved on film and distributed by companies such as Focus Features, Sony Pictures Classics, Disney+, Apple TV+ and Bleecker Street.

Producers of “Giant” expressed an appreciation of the “unique power of live theater to challenge perspectives and bring audiences together in a shared experience.”

Added Rosenblatt, “When I began to write ‘Giant,’ I never dreamed that it would be seen by so many — at the Royal Court, in the West End and, now, on Broadway. That the play, and this exquisite cast’s stellar performances, might now be experienced by a yet wider audience around the world with a new kind of immediacy and intimacy – close-up, at a cinema – is, to me at least, giddy-makingly astounding.”