Sam Mendes is in early talks to direct Disney’s live-action James and the Giant Peach movie Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, SPECTRE) is, according to a story at Variety, in early talks to helm a live-action James and the Giant Peach movie for Walt Disney Pictures. What’s more, the studio is also in talks with bestselling author and two-time Oscar nominee Nick Hornby (Brooklyn, An Education) to adapt Roald Dahl’s children book for the big screen. First published in 1961, James and the Giant Peach was Dahl’s first children’s novel and is officially described on the late author’s website as follows: James Henry Trotter lives with his two horrid aunts, Spiker and Sponge.

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