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photos and articles from Johnny Depp in
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Did you want to know what the chain was that Johnny was wearing in this picture?
Well, it was this: A metal "watch chain" like Willy Wonka's, which was given to members of the film crew for the  Film.  It is all silver and has a "W"(the Wonka symbol) on one end of the chain and a coin on the other end with "I want to shake you warmly by the hand" with the Wonka hat in the middle. On the other side of the coin is "Many Thanks from Willy Wonka 2004" There is a clip on one side and a clip on the other (so it can be used to hold a watch if desired).

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From Judith
Excerpt from the Total Film Article
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory ETA 29July 2005 (UK release)
Burton! Depp! Lee! Its shaping up to be this Summer's golden ticket.
Location: Pinewood, Buckinghamshire
Date:October 2004
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee, James Fox

Total Film screeches to a stop, eyes like proverbial saucers. A dash through the inventing room (Ooh... trippy), the Nut Room (Ooh...Hallucinogenic) and the Chocolate Palace (Ooh...Brown) got the old peepers widening, but this is something else. This is wonderous...

"These are proper houses and proper streets," gabs Alex McDowell, Charlie's Production Designer. He didn't need to say a word - its plain to see, even with eyes on springs. Where five months ago there was only space, now stands a town comprised of snowy roads and telephone poles and brick houses. Not cardboard cut outs, you understand, but the real three dimensional thing, built from the ground up.

Tim Burton is currently stood outside the gates of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, overseeing the kids' tentative arrival as Johnny Depp get ready for his 'big entrance'. It's spectacular, but Total Film has promised not to give the game away... For now. Let's just say the Burton/Depp dream team are delivering Big time. Roald Dahl must be grinning in his grave.

Fact! Johnny Depp is playing Willy Wonka as part '70's glam rock star and part Howard Hughes-style oddball recluse.

Q & A
Tim Burton
You're a big fan of the book, right?
Yeah, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was a story I read as a child. Roald Dahl was one of the first childrens authors who spoke to both children and adults. He's becomes more popular today but, to me, he was one of the first people to do that kind of literature.

Why did you opt to build the sets from scratch?
Nothing against the digital age, but it's nice to make sets. Ask any actor and they'll tell you that they much prefer to be on a set than against a bluescreen. I thought it was especially important because of the kids, too. I wanted them to feel like they were there.

Big Fish was about your father, in away. Is this film about your son?
No.In fact through my experience of having a child, I would probably want to do a horror movie or an alien movie more than something like this!

So how dark is your version going to be? Will it give the kids nightmares?
Well, I get nightmares watching Teletubbies, so it depends on what gives you nightmares...
Jamie Graham

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New Willy Wallpaper and 

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From Pascalle
Johnny will be on the cover of the May 2005 Total Film magazine (UK) and close up on page 1 from the article 

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First look at computer game CATCF HERE

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New merchandize item found by JohnnyCheers - collectors cards - only available in huge amounts at this time from the manufacterer HERE

 

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Found by Peri at the Daily Free Press
Gene Wilder on Depp as Willy Wonka
 

"If I was the director, the only person really that I would want to play [Willy Wonka] would be Johnny Depp because he has something magical about him and something that's mysterious and I think that's what's required," he said

Wilder said he thought the film would differ from the original due to the unique style of director Tim Burton, whose previous films include The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands.

"If Tim Burton is writing and directing it's not going to be like the Willy Wonka that you all know," he said. "I don't know this but I think that it's going to be ... scary."

He said he was disappointed the movie was being remade.

"If you gave me my choice, I would say don't do it," he said.

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Wallpapers from the Official Site

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