Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [2015]

Product Information

Despite not caring for the overall film, Coleman praised Burton for applying his own vision to the story rather than imitating the 1971 adaptation. In line with the film's theatrical release in the United States, an eponymous tie-in video game was released on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Microsoft Windows platforms. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 229 critical reviews of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are positive, with an average rating of 7. The Inventing Room utilized scrap from the aeronautic industry, defunct confectionery machinery, and old car parts. In Tim Burton's expansive remake, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' (2005), Freddie Highmore plays Charlie, whilst Johnny Depp takes on the role of Wonka.

They are Alex McDowell (production designer), Leslie Tomkins (supervising art director), Kevin Phipps (senior art director), art directors David Allday, François Audouy, Anthony Caron-Delion, Sean Haworth and Andy Nicholson, and assistant art directors Matt Gray, James Lewis and Kathy Heaser. As an enthusiastic fan of the book, he intended to remain more faithful to Dahl's vision than the 1971 film had been. Liccy Dahl remembers Burton entering Dahl's famed writing shed and saying, "This is the Buckets' house!

Tim told me that the Oompa-Loompas were strictly programmed, like robots—all they do is work, work, work," Roy commented. Charlie's remaining grandparents, Grandma Georgina, Grandma Josephine, and Grandpa George, are portrayed by Liz Smith, Eileen Essell, and David Morris. In 2020, a cosplayer emulating Depp's portrayal of Willy Wonka went viral on TikTok, with Nylon dubbing him "sexy Willy Wonka". With no prior professional dancing experience, each musical number involving Roy took a month to rehearse and six months in total to film. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised Depp's performance, writing "he maintains the paradox, the mystery, of Willy Wonka: a misanthrope who has little patience for children, who can't even utter the word 'parents' without gagging, yet who invents for those same kids the purest and most luscious candies out of the sugar dream of his imagination.

Depp and Burton may fly too high on the vapors of pure imagination, but it's hard to not get hooked on something this tasty. Consumer Products by Snow Commerce, which is soley responsible for the site's content and all aspects of your purchase. Burton shot the film simultaneously alongside the stop-motion animated film Corpse Bride, which he also directed.

Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Willy Wonka's Chocolate Room was built on Pinewood Studios' 007 Stage, one of the largest soundstages in the world. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. Colleen Atwood, who served as the costume designer on every live-action Tim Burton film from Ed Wood (1994) to Dumbo (2019), was set to reprise her position on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but ultimately declined citing "personal reasons". Tim Burton requested that production designer Alex McDowell watch the film prior to the start of production.

The Bucket home was inspired by Roald Dahl's famed writing hut, while the exterior of Wonka's factory was based on fascist architecture, with Burton remarking "for Wonka's factory, we kind of wanted a building with a kind of Hoover Dam-like optimism and strength, but then once it gets dark it looks slightly foreboding. Development for a second adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. The game received mostly negative reviews from critics, although Winifred Phillips's score received some praise. Burton and August incorporated many parts of the book that were absent from the 1971 film adaptation, including the construction of the Indian Prince's chocolate palace, the inclusion of Charlie's father, and Veruca Salt's attack by squirrels. Worldwide, the film was the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2005, while it was the seventh-highest in the United States [119] and fourth-highest in the United Kingdom.

He announces a competition to reveal all the secrets and magic of his factory to five lucky children, who find a golden ticket hidden in one of the chocolate bars. While promoting the film in Japan, Chalamet said, "If you would've told me when I was 12 years old watching the Johnny Depp version of Willy Wonka that I'd get to be here in Tokyo promoting this movie as Willy Wonka, standing next to Hugh Grant, I would've told you you were lying. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory represents the first musical film directed by Burton and the first time since The Nightmare Before Christmas that Elfman contributed to a film score using written songs and his vocals.