Netflix in talks to buy Roald Dahl. (The IP, not the corpse).
Netflix is spending big to acquire the Roald Dahl library.
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One of the big problems Netflix faces is a lack of intellectual property that is known away from Netflix. Anytime it is releases TV shows or movies as Netflix originals that are based on pre-existing books/TV/Comics/etc it needs to license the properties.
Three years ago Netflix did just that with the Roald Dahl library of content. It paid somewhere betw…