Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl's children's classic -- about a poor boy who wins a tour of a mysterious chocolate factory from the eccentric Willy Wonka -- first came to the screen in 1971 from Paramount as "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." The...

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...in 1964, Dahl's novel has already inspired two film versions. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, released in 1971, cast Gene Wilder as the eccentric chocolate maker. The second, directed by Tim Burton, reverted to the book's...

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...get a tour of a magical chocolate factory, has already made the media rounds. It became "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" for a 1971 movie (which Dahl hated). In 2005 it was remade by Tim Burton under the book's original title, "Charlie...

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...made. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) angered Dahl so much that he refused to allow the producers to adapt the sequel, while Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have announced that they have no intention of making a sequel to Charlie and...

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...Roald Dahl's beloved children's story. Starring Johnny Depp as off-kilter chocolatier Wonka, the film brims over with Burton-style, from the gorgeous, colorful sets to its often twisted sense of humor. Even those who find Depp's performance a...

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Pure Imagination "Pure Imagination" is a song from the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the movie and does not appear in the original book by Roald Dahl or...

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...brilliant production design, has labored so hard to make Wonka his own -- giving him a tedious back story, replete with daddy issues -- that he's lost all the subtle humor and understatement that made Roald Dahl's original story, and...

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...as the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). Dahl later disowned the film. Dahl would later receive posthumous songwriting credits for the soundtrack of Tim Burton's 2005 film adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as...

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