Moviegoers are excited to watch the Steven Spielberg film "The Big Friendly Giant" which would be shown on July 1, 2016.
The first trailer of the film, released by Disney on Wednesday, has been viewed on YouTube by almost 700,000 times a few hours after it was posted. The teaser of "The Big Friendly Giant," which stars Ruby Barnhill as a young orphan girl and Mark Rylance as the giant, has elicited a lot of comments on the video sharing site.
"It's story about friendship, it's story about loyalty and protecting your friends and it's a story that shows that even a little girl can help a big giant sold is biggest problems," People quotes Spielberg.
The movie, from the original book by Roald Dahl - who would turn 100 years old in September 2016 - is about the Giant introducing the orphan girl to his world full of adventure, magic and thrill. It is also a tale of empowering children which make Dahl a "kind of genius," says the film director.
"It was very, very, very brave of him to introduce that combination of darkness and light which was so much Disney's original signature in a lot of earlier works," adds Spielberg. He cites "Dumbo," "Fantasia," "Snow White" and "Cinderella" as examples of Disney films being scary, yet at the same time teaches enduring lessons to viewers.
That quality attracted Spielberg to direct Dahl's book, the director says.
Commenting on YouTube, Mark Middleton says that at 30, he's incredibly excited to watch the movie. Similarly, z8tes, 24, shares the same excitement, while 49-year-old Janine Toms, who despite being afraid of monsters grabbing her toes at night and spooks in the hallway, also looks forward to July 1.
Jack Gorman says it is his favorite book as a child and had been wishing for years for the book to be made into a movie.
Teckniphobia, who laments the way most trailers almost show the entire movie, comments that this trailer "does more than enough to accomplish the goal of making you want to see the film without telling you the entire story."