Roald Dahl Co. Inks Calm Sleep Tales Deal, Henry Golding as Wonka

Characters created by beloved youngsters’s creator Roald Dahl are coming to the Calm meditation and sleep app, in a sequence of bedtime tales learn by actors together with Henry Golding and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

Calm entered right into a multiyear cope with the Roald Dahl Story Firm, which Netflix acquired final yr, for a sequence of unique Sleep Tales and soundscapes with a mixture of new tales and current excerpt from Dahl titles. Calm’s first Sleep Story underneath the partnership is “Charlie and the Dream Manufacturing facility” — impressed by Dahl’s e book “Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility” — narrated by Golding (“Loopy Wealthy Asians”) as Willy Wonka. The story can be out there Tues, Oct. 25 completely on Calm.

Golding’s Sleep Story invitations listeners into a brand new room in Wonka’s wondrous Chocolate Manufacturing facility, one which turns desires into actuality. “Tonight, I’m going to take you to that room — a journey that may intrigue and entrance you,” Golding murmurs tranquilly within the story, backed by a new-age-y soundtrack.

The subsequent Calm Sleep Story from the partnership can be out there in December 2022 and have an excerpt from “Matilda” with narration by Howell-Baptiste (Netflix’s “The Sandman” sequence). Future content material will characteristic different Dahl classics together with “The BFG” (Massive Pleasant Big) and “The Witches.”

As with Calm’s Sleep Tales and different premium content material, the Dahl tales can be out there solely to subscribers to its $69.99/yr service.

Based in 2012, Calm has discovered traction with its Sleep Tales amongst children and adults alike. The app at the moment gives Sleep Tales narrated by Idris Elba, Harry Types, Cynthia Ervio, Anna Kendrick, Kate Winslet, Pink, Maya Rudolph, Wanda Sykes, Nick Offerman, Randall Park, Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Bublé and others, together with content material from animated franchises like “The Minions,” “Kung Fu Panda” and “Peppa Pig.”