The Magic Faraway Tree is a classic children's story by iconic British author Enid Blyton which is now being adapted as a major movie. With larger-than-life characters such as Moonface, Silky, Saucepan Man and Dame Washalot, Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree saga was written in the 1930s, 40s and early 50s, and has enchanted children for decades.
The movie of The Magic Faraway Tree features a script written by Wonka and Paddington 2 writer Simon Farnaby (also the star of BBC1 comedy Ghosts), but the story has been set in the modern day, following a family moving to the English countryside. There, the children Jo, Beth and Fran, discover an enchanted forest and a magic tree full of quirky inhabitants that leads them to wondrous lands. The Crown star Claire Foy and Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield play the children’s parents Polly and Tim.
