Danny DeVito has said that he wouldn't be able to make his 1996 classic film "Matilda," which features outright nasty parents and kids getting swung around by their pigtails, in the modern day.

Directed by Tony Award-winning director Matthew Warchus (Matilda The Musical), the film is produced by Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan for Working Title, Jon Finn (Billy Elliot), and Luke Kelly of The ...