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Author Topic: Tim Burton To Remake Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-23-2003 04:07 PM                     Tim Burton has been hired by Warner Bros. to direct a remake of the classic film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Gywn Lurie will be writing the new screenplay "from scratch." The movie will, of course, be based on Roald Dahl's 1964 novel. The story is about "a fantastical world in which a loony chocolatier tempted every child in London with the possibility of finding a golden ticket inside one of his bars. The five lucky winners were then entitled to a visit to his mysterious candy factory, one that would have lifelong repercussions for all involved." Credit: Variety  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-23-2003 04:28 PM                     From NBC http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/2224539/detail.html From IMDB http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#2  |  IP: Logged Ken Layton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1452 From: Olympia, Wash. USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-23-2003 05:02 PM                     Why remake a classic?  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-23-2003 08:12 PM                     I remember this idea being trial-balloned a few years ago. Burton was looking into casting Marilyn Manson as Wonka. I'd like to see Robin Williams as Wonka myself. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-23-2003 08:16 PM                     There is a chocolate factory two stop lights from my house so I don't need the movie.....So far I've managed to stay out of the place! Mark  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 05-24-2003 12:48 AM                        Hershey factory reject bins... mmmmm! Robin Williams would make a good Willy Wonka. Hmmm... maybe Danny DeVito and Verne Troyer can be Umpa Loomas.  |  IP: Logged Matthew Nock Film Handler Posts: 82 From: Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 05-24-2003 09:49 AM                     Didnt Danny DeVito start out painted orange anyways?  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-24-2003 04:22 PM                     The rumor is that they're trying to get Jim Carrey for the role of Wonka.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-24-2003 04:41 PM                       Robin Williams would work, although I believe Jim Carrey would be a better player for that role.  |  IP: Logged Mathew Molloy Master Film Handler Posts: 357 From: The Santa Cruz Mountains Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-24-2003 10:07 PM                     I used to live two blocks from an Almond Roca factory in Tacoma... Nothing like buckets of mis-wrapped Almond Roca ---  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-25-2003 02:01 AM                     I heard a while back of a Wonka remake with Nicholas Cage as Wonka. Talk about a disaster! They should leave this movie alone. No one can touch Gene Wilder! Hollywood needs to take a completely different direction... like come up with ORIGINAL movies! =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 05-25-2003 08:27 AM                     *cough* You know that ORIGINAL Gene Wilder movie was based on a book.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 05-26-2003 12:14 AM                        There was a movie? Robin Williams would be so much better than Jim Carrey.  |  IP: Logged Darryl Spicer Film God Posts: 3250 From: Lexington, KY, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 05-26-2003 12:41 AM                    just out of curiosity the original post has the title as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Was this an alternate title to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 05-26-2003 01:26 AM                        Hmmmm... the first book was called 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. The second book was called 'Willy Wonka and the Great Glass Elevator'. I think they combined the titles when they combined the novels into one film.  |  IP: Logged

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