An ultra-violent director was hired to make an Enid Blyton movie

Danish filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn, who specialises in misanthropic flicks, has been hired to convert the much-loved Famous Five books to the big screen.

Alexander Larman

Jun 27, 2023 – 12.58pm

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Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series has acquired a reputation, since the first book, Five on a Treasure Island, was published in 1942, for being the most wholesome family entertainment imaginable.

Each of the novels revolved around four children – Julian, Anne, Dick and George – and their dog Timmy, all of whom got involved in mild scrapes in an unchanging English countryside, where modern technology (or war) were never mentioned and where the characters were held in a permanent pre-pubescence.

The Telegraph London