Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise) the same name by Roald Dahl. The film was directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. The storyline concerns Charlie, who takes a tour he has won, led by Wonka, through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world. Development for another adaptation of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", filmed previously as "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", began in 1991, 20 years after the first film version, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie as a black child was evidence that he was not racist. Various unused and draft material from Dahl's early versions of the novel have been found. In the initial, unpublished drafts of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" nine golden tickets were distributed to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory and the children faced more rooms and more temptations to test their self-control. Some of the names of the children cut from the final work include: "Spotty Powder" was first published as a short story in 1973. In 1998 it was included in the children's horror anthology Scary! Stories That