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Warner Bros. has tapped Tim Burton to direct Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the second live-action adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic children’s novel, reports Variety.
It is one of two projects Burton will make back-to-back at the studio, as he’s signed to next do the stop-motion animation feature The Corpse Bride.
“Charlie” has long been considered one of WB’s most promising properties, one that the studio hopes will lead to a Broadway musical, adds the trade.
Burton’s has not made a deal yet, but it’s close after a very positive meeting between the director and WB’s Alan Horn, Jeff Robinov and Kevin McCormick. The Dahl estate has already approved Burton as the director they wanted most.
Boy… that’s gonna be some pretty big shoes to fill…… the first movie was so beloved. But hey, I can see Burton as being the one to tackle it, if anyone… the story is so deceptively dark beneath all of the overlying color.
Do you think they’ll write all-new songs, or re-write the existing ones?
But again, I’m not going to get my hopes up until it’s confirmed!
Hopefully Burton will make it darker and stranger than the original (nothing against the original).
It could possibly be one really kick-ass Danny Elfman score, though.
“Do you think they’ll write all-new songs, or re-write the existing ones?”
Oooo, Danny composing new songs to coincide with the score?
That sounds promising. Though, why not do Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator?
It’s a sequel, and people like sequels.
I love love love the book, but I didn’t like the original movie one tiny bit. (sorry, I know a lot of people really, really dig it.) I’d read the book so many times as a kid that when I finally saw the movie as a late kid/early teen, it didn’t match up to the awesomeness in my head. And it was a shitty musical. I didn’t mind that it was a musical, as I like many musicals, but it was a really bad one.
As long as it’s true to the book, I’ll be cool with it. I lost a shitload of respect and love for Burton after POTA, but **** it, he’s still the guy who made Beetlejuice, Batman, and Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.
Burt
Yah! Those Oompah things are scary! Maybe if Tim does it, he could make ’em all gory, or something….I mean, tiny zombies in a chocolate factory hasn’t exactly been done before.
Anyways, the original movie was very….different. So I’m sure Tim’ll have some interesting twists and all (not zombies, though, which is sad)….
yeah right!
it wont happen
NO ONE can fill Gene Wilder’s shoes!! At best, it will be mediocore, no matter what!
STUPID HOLLYWOOD AND THEIR REMAKES, ADAPTATIONS, AND ALL OTHER RIPPED -OFF JUNK
THERE IS SOMETHING CALLED ORIGINALITY, YOU CORPORATE BLOOD-SUCKING SCUM!
– my 2 cents
Wait a minute! I thought that at first too, this has been rumored for some time but it’s being reported by the Hollywood Reporter (check below). They are a legit news organization (even though they’re featured on IMDB). The Hollywood Reporter isn’t IMDB. It doesn’t take submissions. It takes hard facts.
http://us.imdb.com/WN?20030523#2
Cool!
Although…
this is a little weird. Burton had a rather big falling out with WB when they shunned him from directing Batman and his Superman movie flopped in pre-production. I thought he wouldn’t do anymore WB films.Oh well. Danny and Tim got back into cahoots on Mars Attacks so I suppose that the production company could do the same on Corpse BRIDE and Chocolate Factory.
Hey, guys, it’s CHARLIE and the Chocolate Factory. NOT Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It’s the SECOND adaption. So, therefore, it’s NOT a remake! It’s the sequel.
People shouldn’t think of it as a remake of the movie, but another adaptation of the book. A TIM BURTON adaptation of the book.
Who’s written the screenplay? It really depends on if the screen writer adapted it from the book or the movie doesn’t it. Or maybe he used both to craft the screenplay? What might have drawn Tim to the project might have been the amusing pen “scratch” illustrations done for the book, which reminds me of Tim’s own drawing style (food for thought anyway).
Nat
CHARLIE writer Roald Dahl is probably what attracted Tim Burton. Dahl’s books and poems are wonderfully subversive (MARVIN’S MARVELOUS MEDICINE). I read ’em all as a kid.
BTW, those illustrations were done by longtime Dahl collaborator, Quentin Blake.
Ryan
I don’t know….I mean, sometimes remakes are good. Example: old Batman, bad….1989 and 1993 Batman, good.
Then again, sometimes remakes are bad. Example: those other Batman movies after Burton’s….
Totally disagree………Wilder is dull….I think Burton will really draw out the dark undercurrent that prevades the film….the original wasn’t kooky enough…I think Johnny Depp would be great in there somewere as would the cheshire grin of Tim Curry….
Wilder dull? … Man, WTF is wrong with you!?
Gene Wilder is a terrible actor.
I happen to believe that Gene Wilder is not only a great comic actor (see The Producers as evidence for this), but that he is also a great comic writer, and overall great guy. You see very few of those now in this age of ego and self-promotion. The manic timing and sense of the mundane was cleverly interwoven into his performance or Willy Wonka. True, it’s something that you don’t get from the book, but we’ve had this discussion before; if you want what the book gives you read the book, the movie is another animal (like it should be). As I get older I become more and more impressed at how musicals can tint a scene or light a thought that otherwise is stated and forgotten in a regular movie. But I’m an old softy at heart (geeze, I even like Bedknobs And Broomsticks, so you really can’t take anything I say seriously).
Nat
I am sure that since the Dahl estate didn’t like the first movie that was made they would not aprove a treatment of a new movie if it were based on the older movie.
Tim Burton would be the obvious choice to direct any film based on a Dahl story.
Gene Wilder happens to be one of my favorite actors – brilliant man, brilliant work. (It also doesn’t hurt that he was married to Gilda Radner, one of my childhood idols. Remember Todd and Lisa?) The tunnel scene in the original “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” will always be one of my favorite movie moments. Most people I know said that it scared them as a kid; I was completely intrigued
Here’s hoping that Burton’s version will be just as impressive. The funny thing is, every time I watch “Charlie…,” I feel like a kid on Christmas. Who isn’t impressed by lickable wallpaper?! (Do the snozberries really taste like snozberries?)-E (“But I want a golden goose now!” Don’t we all!)
and he’s Welsh, lol.
VARUKA:
“Snozberry? Whoever heard of a snozberry?!”WONKA:
“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the dreams.”That’s my favorite line from the movie!
Wonka is like a philosopher dressed up like a showman, and Wilder made him pop to life.
Couldn’t agree more with ya, Erika.
Nat
N – yes, I’ve always thought that philosophy and good food are essential companions. Can’t have one without the other!
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” gets more profound every time I watch it. Laugh if you must, but there’s more wisdom in thoughtful humor than you might think! (The last time I checked, John Cleese was a professor at Cornell. The guys in “Monty Python” weren’t dummies!)
-E
The suspense is terrible, I hope it’ll last…
As an aside, when I first put in my copy of Willy Wonka for the three year old, he freaked as soon as the Oompas appeared.
This is the same kid that watched and adores Nightmare since he was a baby.
Skeletons, good…midgets with orange faces, bad.-beth
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