Johnny Depp as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film "Finding Neverland" (2004). The following year he starred as Willy Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", which reunited him with director Tim Burton, with whom he had not collaborated since "Sleepy Hollow". The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. "Chocolate Factory" was followed by another Burton project, stop-motion animation "Corpse Bride" (2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Depp reprised the role of
Johnny Depp say per year and you realise that you've said written words more than you've had a chance to say your own words, you start thinking about that as an insane option for a human being." In February 2016, it was announced that Depp had been cast as Dr. Jack Griffin / The Invisible Man in Universal Studios' upcoming shared film universe entitled the Dark Universe, a rebooted version of their classic Universal Monsters franchise. Depp is slated to portray the character throughout the series' installments, as well as in the as-of-yet untitled Invisible Man film that is intended to be