Director Ben Gregor and screenwriter Simon Farnaby have brought Enid Blyton's classic children's book The Enchanted Wood to the screen as The Magic Faraway Tree, a Vertical release starring Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield. The adaptation updates Blyton's original story for a modern audience by weaving in themes of technology and family life, while the filmmakers say they deliberately preserved the "carefree", unedited charm and English modesty of Blyton's original prose.

In the film, engineer Polly (Foy) and stay-at-home father Tim (Garfield) relocate their three children to the countryside after Polly quits her tech job involving data-harvesting smart fridges, voiced by Dame Judi Dench. Away from their devices, the children Beth, Joe and Fran discover a magic tree leading to fantastical realms, encountering characters including Moonface, Silky and the villainous Dame Slap, played respectively by Nonso Anozie, Nicola Coughlan and Rebecca Ferguson. Farnaby said he wanted to avoid making an "anti-screen" film, instead showing there is room for both technology and imaginative outdoor play, drawing inspiration partly from the sitcom The Good Life.