Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[tpfkabi]

this remake scares me. i love the original so much. it's so unique, and like most have said, you can't touch Wilder's performance (especially that intro on the red carpet). buttttttttt, if anyone touched it, i'm glad it's Burton/Depp.

i had read that Dahl was disappointed with the original. this surprises me since it lists him as the screenplay writer of the original.

so i ask this question to those who have read Dahl's original book:

How different was the film from the book? were there major characters/plots scrapped or added?

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Tim Burton on His Version of Chocolate Factory
Source: Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Big Fish director Tim Burton talked to the Chicago Sun-Times about his upcoming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, in which Johnny Depp will play Willy Wonka. Burton says while the 1971 Gene Wilder film was a bit on the sappy side, the new version won't be so much.

"Well, I don't want to crush people's childhood dreams, but the original film is sappy," Burton says. "It's sappy when it shouldn't be sappy and it's weird. Let's just say it's not one of my personal favorites. I'd rate 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' much higher."

Burton says he has wanted to do the remake for years. "I responded to the children's book because it respected that children can be adults, and I think adults forget that. There can be darkness and sort of foreboding. Very sinister things are very much a part of childhood. I like that sort of humor and emotion put together."

And why did he pick Depp, who has starred in various Burton films, for the role? "I just like working with him. He's always surprising and fun."

[mister mister]

Burton says while the 1971 Gene Wilder film was a bit on the sappy side, the new version won't be so much...

"I responded to the children's book because it respected that children can be adults, and I think adults forget that. There can be darkness and sort of foreboding. Very sinister things are very much a part of childhood. I like that sort of humor and emotion put together."

Sounds like it's going to be a very dark film.

[Pozer]

I was excited about this news at first, but for some reason when I hear Burton talk about it, I feel he should just leave the original be.

[coffeebeetle]

Yeah, he's dissing the original hardcore.  I don't recall it being THAT bad...

[Duck Sauce]

i think its a great story. i think now that it shouldnt be kept from being retold just because another version was already good, This will be different and at least its burton

[Raikus]

This will be different and at least its burton

Planet of the Apes.

That's why I have much fear for this project.

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yeah, it could blow like POTA or be worthwhile in its own new way.  but the original doesnt suck, so why an unneccesary remake?  its just a waste of his time when it'd bbe so much more interesting to see him doing fresh material: ed scissorhands, big fish (better rule).

[tpfkabi]

has anyone ever read the book?

i just wondered how different the original movie was from the book. apparently Dahl was unhappy with it, but this confuses me since he wrote the screenplay

[Pubrick]

apparently Dahl was unhappy with it, but this confuses me since he wrote the screenplay

maybe he wrote a dark script, with johnny depp in the lead. and they changed it all.

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i read the book several times when i was little, although i dont know that i could recall any specifics now.

[foray]

John C. Reilly? Not eccentric-looking enough, or skinny for that matter. Gene Wilder was the perfect Wonka. I found him so sexy and enigmatic. He also had a fatherly touch to him at times. I can't see Johnny Depp pulling it off. I prefer Christopher Walken!

foray

[Cecil]

i read the book too, but havent seen the film in many many years. nothing really stood out as a big change

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John August Penning Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

John August, who wrote the current Tim Burton film Big Fish, is reteaming with the director to write the script for Warner Bros. Pictures' Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Johnny Depp is attached to star in the remake of the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and the studio is keen on getting the project before cameras early next year.

Scott Frank, Gwyn Lurie and Pamela Pettler previously wrote drafts of the "Charlie" script, but August is said to be starting from scratch by heading back to the original source material, the Roald Dahl classic novel. August also wrote the two "Charlie's Angels" films.

[Gamblour.]

Three Charlie movies...weird. Tom Green would make a great Oompa Loompa.