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Giant, Starring John Lithgow, Will Receive International Cinema Release

The drama was filmed in 2025 in the West End.

| Broadway |

May 13, 2026

[L to R] Aya Cash, John Lithgow, Elliott Levey, and Rachael Stirling Photo by Joan Marcus — Aya Cash, John Lithgow, Elliott Levey, and Rachael Stirling in *Giant*
(© Joan Marcus)

Mark Rosenblatt’s Olivier Award-winning and Tony-nominated drama Giant, starring John Lithgow, will receive an international cinema release, with showings set to take place in 900 theaters in 18 different countries around the world, including the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia. The official release date is November 19, 2026.

Set in the summer of 1983, just before the release of Roald Dahl’s The Witches, Giant imagines a tense meeting between Dahl and his American and British publishers as they scramble to contain the fallout from his public denunciation of Israel and defence of the Palestinians in a review of a book on the 1982 Lebanon war.

Giant is currently running on Broadway following sold-out runs at the Royal Court Theatre and in London’s West End, where it was filmed at the Harold Pinter Theatre. The screen cast will be made up of Lithgow as Dahl, Olivier winner Elliot Levey, Tony nominee Aya Cash, Rachael Stirling, Tessa Bonham Jones, and Richard Hope. It is directed by Nicholas Hytner.

Of the Broadway production, our critic called Giant “a masterfully written and thrillingly performed drama.”

Lithgow, Cash, Hytner, and Rosenblatt are currently nominated for Tony Awards.