Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film) "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" in 1971) began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary Ross, Rob Minkoff, Martin Scorsese and Tom Shadyac had been involved, while actors Bill Murray, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Adam Sandler, and many others, were either in discussion with or considered by the studio to play Wonka. Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Depp and Danny Elfman aboard. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" represents the first time since "The Nightmare Before Christmas" that
Wonka Bar Wonka Bar The Wonka Bar is both a fictional candy bar, introduced as a key story point in the 1964 novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl, and a type of consumer product candy bar inspired by the fictional confection. Wonka Bars appear in both film adaptations of the novel, "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971) and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), and the play "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical" (2013) each with different packaging. Varieties of Wonka Bars were subsequently manufactured and sold in the real world, formerly by the Willy Wonka Candy