TRAILER: Steven Spielberg’s THE BFG With Mark Rylance as the Giant Has World Premiere at Cannes

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The BFG is pure movie magic — Pete Hammond, Deadline: Hollywood.

Legendary director Steven Spielberg’s The BFG had its world premiere at Cannes Saturday night. The BFG is  a big-screen and big-budget Disney live-action adaption of Roald Dahl’s children’s classic.

The World Is More Giant Than You Can Imagine.

In the 1982 book, the people-friendly giant (Mark Rylance) teams up with a little girl Sophie (10-year-old Brit Ruby Barnhill) and the Queen of England to capture evil, people-eating giants invading the human world.

A scary-looking giant hand comes for Sophie in the orphanage, but the Big Friendly Giant  is not out to harm her. He has been ostracized by his kind because he refuses to eat children.

 The people-eating giants Bloodbottler (Saturday Night Live alumnus Bill Hader) and Fleshlumpeater (Jermaine Clement) are twice as big as the BFG and a threat to everyone. Can Sophie and her new BFF the BFG convince the Queen (Penelope Wilton) and her maid (Rebecca Hall) that they exist?

Related: Steven Spielberg’s The BFG with Bill Hader Expected to Film in Vancouver This Spring.

The BFG filmed in a Vancouver studio last Spring with background locations at Buckingham and Blenheim Palaces and the Isle of Skye.

The BFG will be in theatres on July 1st.

Poster.