Everyone's favourite writer of children's stories with extremely dark undertones, Roald Dahl, is set to see (not really, he's been dead for 21 years) another one of his tales ruined as it gets turned into a big screen adaptation.

Dreamworks have reportedly got the rights to the BFG (which was our favourite Roald Dahl Story), with the possibility of a live-action version to be made.

There'll have to be a lot of CGI to make the BFG and all the other giants work in live-action, but hopefully Tim Burton won't be around to bring his own hallucinogenic, Johnny Depp  saturated style to another Roald Dahl story. 

The BFG had previously been made into a film in 1989, an animated version with David Jason as the Big Friendly Giant, which gave the title character a memorable West Country accent. 

This time round, Melissa Mathison, the writer behind such children's classics as E.T. and The Indian in the Cupboard has been lined up to write the script.

If made, it will become the fourth Roald Dahl book to be made into a live-action movie. After James and the Giant Peach, the Witches, Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (twice).