Johnny Depp will be meeting for a fourth time with director Tim Burton for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Warner Bros. adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic in which he has been offered the role of Willy Wonka.
Depp and Burton, who previously made Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow together, came away from their meeting sparked to make the film and talks are expected to begin shortly. If everything goes ahead, the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl star could be filming the movie next year.
The studio is eager to revive 1971's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, about a mysterious chocolate maker's attempt to find a worthy successor. Scott Frank wrote a draft of the script, followed by Gwyn Lurie, and Pamela Pettler was hired to write the latest version.
Pettler wrote The Corpse Bride, the Mike Johnson-directed stop-motion animation film for Warner Bros. about a man who inadvertently marries a corpse. Burton produces that film as well.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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