Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | film by Burton [2005] | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In Tim Burton
  …Legend of Sleepy Hollow”; and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book of the same name.
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reception

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  In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Reception
  Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), with Freddie Highmore as Charlie and Johnny Depp as Wonka, was more faithful to the book but received mixed reviews. Dahl wrote a sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972).
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role of Depp

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  In Johnny Depp: 21 Jump Street, Tim Burton films, and Hunter S. Thompson
  … (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005); in the latter film Depp played the reclusive candy baron Willy Wonka. In addition, Depp provided the voice of the unfortunate groom in Burton’s macabre animated tale Corpse Bride (2005).
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story by Dahl

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  In Roald Dahl
  …the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005). His other works for young readers include Fantastic Mr. Fox (1970; film 2009), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), The Enormous Crocodile (1978), The BFG (1982; films 1989 and 2016),
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