Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [2015]

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considered or discussed Willy Wonka with Bill Murray, Christopher Walken, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Mike Myers, Ben Stiller, Leslie Nielsen, three members of Monty Python ( John Cleese, Eric Idle, and Michael Palin), as well as Patrick Stewart, and Adam Sandler. When introducing himself to the golden ticket winners, Wonka quotes " Good Morning Starshine" from the 1967 musical Hair. Burton said he sought actors "who had something of the character in them", and found Mike Teavee the hardest character to cast. The Russian ticket is revealed to be a forgery just as Charlie discovers the real ticket inside the wrapper. After the tour, the four eliminated children leave the factory with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their elimination, while Charlie learns that Wonka, now approaching retirement, intended to find a worthy heir.

Amazed and awed by the machines and chocolate, things begin to go awry, and their visit does not go as planned.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. Scott also praised Alex McDowell's set design, comparing the look of the factory to something out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927). The actor was able to play various Oompa-Loompas using split screen photography, digital and front projection effects. The Dahl estate was conflicted about the addition of Wilbur Wonka but ultimately decided to support Burton's vision.

According to Tim Burton, "the important thing for me was that we wanted to give the chocolate river a really chocolatey feel, give it a weight, not just brown water.

As an enthusiastic fan of the book, he intended to remain more faithful to Dahl's vision than the 1971 film had been. 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. In terms of the screenwriting process, August said "I literally went through the book with a highlighter and I would save even like little bits of scene description as much as I could, just so it would be as Roald Dahl-y as possible.