What happens when a playboy gambler masters at cheating at cards?
In September 2021, Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company for $686 million, giving the streaming platform the rights to the author’s complete works.
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar follows the titular character to a doctor’s office, where he finds a medical report on a man from India who claims to be able to see without his eyes.
Henry, a gambling man who has never worked a day in his life, foresees the financial opportunities this power could grant him.
Over three years, he studied the meditation method, eventually gaining the ability to see through playing cards and even predict the future.
Henry takes his new-found talents to a casino and sees the greed in those around him after winning a large sum of money.
He soon realizes he has lost the sense of fun that comes with the chance of winning and decides to do something good with his money.
After learning the illegality of throwing bills from his window, Henry realizes that he wants to open the best orphanages in the world.
To do so, though, Henry needs even more money and finds himself in trouble with a casino-owning mafioso of Las Vegas. Henry must don disguises and travel the world to hide from them while learning the cost of his good deeds.
Who’s in the cast?
Benedict Cumberbatch is set to star as Henry Sugar, the greedy child of a wealthy father who learns the actual worth of his money after gaining a strange ability.
Starring alongside Cumberbatch in undisclosed roles are Dev Patel (The Green Knight), Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Rupert Friend (The French Dispatch), Richard Ayoade (Submarine), and Ben Kingsley (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings).
Stream or skip?
STREAM IT! First of all, our Doctor Strange Benedict Cumberbatch is starring in the movie. Secondly, Wes Anderson keeps getting more and more Wes Anderson, love it or hate it.
