James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach
Directed by	Henry Selick
Produced by	Tim Burton Denise Di Novi
Written by	Jonathan Roberts, Karey Kirkpatrick, Steve Bloom (screenplay) Roald Dahl (book)
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Inc.
Running time	79 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Rating
Budget	$38,000,000 USD (estimated)

James and the Giant Peach is a film based on the Roald Dahl book of the same name. It was produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick, who also directed The Nightmare Before Christmas. The movie is a combination of live action and stop-motion. The film was released in theatres in 1996, and was written by Karey Kirkpatrick.

Cast

Role	Actor
James Henry Trotter the main protagonist.	Paul Terry
Mr. Grasshopper	Simon Cowell
Mr. Centipede	Richard Dreyfuss
Miss Spider	Susan Sarandon
Mrs. LadyBug	Jane Leeves
Mrs. Glowworm/Aunt Sponge the teritary antagonist.	Miriam Margolyes
Mr. Earthworm	David Coles
Aunt Spiker the secondary antagonist of the film.	Joanna Lumley

The Cloud Rhino the main antagonist of the film.

Awards

The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score (by Randy Newman).

Trivia

• In the book there is a Silkworm (in the movie there is only spider silk used to tether the seagulls.)
• In the book, Miss LadyBug is instead Miss Ladybird – the British name for this insect.
• In the book, the friends are forced to tether seagulls to the peach to escape into the air from a swarm of living sharks. In the movie, they are also forced to do this, but instead of a swarm of real-life sharks, they get attacked by a single mechanical one.
• In the film, there is a sequence where the friends rescue the centipede (who had dove down into an icy ocean to find a compass) from a crew of undead pirates from whom the centipede had stolen the compass. There is no such sequence in the book. Instead, the book has a sequence where the centipede falls overboard accidentally and James and Ms. Spider go overboard to rescue him.
• In the same scene mentioned above, the statue on the front of the ship as they look for centipide looks like the 2 aunts.
• In the book there are Cloud Rhinos living in the sky (and computer animation), but in the movie there aren't any, although the Cloud Rhinoceros – representing James's fear, as his parents have been eaten by a rhino – seems to replace them.
• In the book, a jet airplane flies between the seagulls and the peach, severing the tethers and causing the peach to fall. In the movie, the Cloud Rhinoceros cuts the ropes.
• In the book, James's two evil aunts are flattened and killed by the rolling peach. In the movie, they survive this and chase James all the way to New York (apparently driving their car across the sea floor, oddly enough), but James finally stands up to them and the bugs tie them up with Miss Spider's strings so the NYPD can take them away.
• In the pirate ship scene, the Centipede exclaims, "A Skellington!" upon spotting a skeleton that looks like Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Upon finding a compass moments later he exclaims, "Jackpot!" Another of the skeletons has the bill, sailor's cap, sailor's shirt and fuck of Donald Duck. There also is a regular looking Pirates, Vikings, and Inuits.
• Andy Partridge of the British pop group OST was originally tapped to write the songs for this film. When Partridge backed out over the compensation he was offered, the producers called on Randy Newman instead. Partridge eventually released demo versions of the four songs he composed for the film.
• The lyrics for the song Eating the Peach are those written by Roald Dahl and present in the book as one of the Centipede's songs.
• Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker briefly recite a few lines from another poem written by Dahl in his book.
• Rhinoceroses are actually herbivores.
• From the director of The Lion King.