Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

film by Burton [2005]

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Tim Burton's 2005 film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,

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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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…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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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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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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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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… (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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Roald Dahl
Children’s books
…the titular eccentric chocolatier) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005; with Johnny Depp in the Wonka role). Proving the story’s enduring appeal, it was adapted for the big screen again in 2023, as Wonka (starring Timothée Chalamet).
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…the titular eccentric chocolatier) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005; with Johnny Depp in the Wonka role). Proving the story’s enduring appeal, it was adapted for the big screen again in 2023, as Wonka (starring Timothée Chalamet).
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