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** The general plot was also ''very'' different in the first drafts. Willy Wonka had a son named Freddie, Mrs. Bucket was Charlie's companion on the tour rather than Grandpa Joe, the story ended with Charlie getting his own chocolate ''shop'' instead of inheriting Wonka's factory, the Wonka Factory had conventional workers rather than Oompa-Loompas, and instead of elaborate poems verses of an ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''-esque ditty came in the wake of each child's fate... Oh, and Charlie was black. Yes, Charlie was originally explicitly described as a black boy - but [[ExecutiveMeddling Dahl's editor]] convinced him to drop that idea, assuring him that his novel would be more interesting to the audience [[ValuesDissonance if it was about a white character instead]]. There's a lot of information about this early verson of the story here [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]].
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** The general plot was also ''very'' different in the first drafts. Willy Wonka had a son named Freddie, Mrs. Bucket was Charlie's companion on the tour rather than Grandpa Joe, the story ended with Charlie getting his own chocolate ''shop'' instead of inheriting Wonka's factory, the Wonka Factory had conventional workers rather than Oompa-Loompas, and instead of elaborate poems poems, verses of an ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''-esque ditty came in the wake of each child's fate... Oh, and Charlie was black. Yes, Charlie was originally explicitly described as a black boy - but [[ExecutiveMeddling Dahl's editor]] convinced him to drop that idea, assuring him that his novel would be more interesting to the audience [[ValuesDissonance if it was about a white character instead]]. There's a lot of information about this early verson of the story here [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]].
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*** An interesting case about these early characters is the one of Marvin Prune and Miranda Grope. Miranda Grope was the prototype for Miranda Mary Piker, of the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter, but she was the completely opposite of Piker, rather being a rude, unruly, nasty and filthy girl that refused to obey anyone and anything. She was supposed to jump in the Chocolate River to swim in it, and be sucked into the pipes alongside Augustus Pottle (future Augustus Gloop). Whereas Augustus was to be sent Chocolate Fudge Room, Miranda was rather sent by the pipes into the Peanut Bristle Mixer. Meanwhile, the actual prototype for the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter was ''The Children's Delight'', chapter, centered around Marvin Prune, a "conceited boy" in Dahl's words who was a GenderFlip of future Miranda Mary Piker, making the later a CompositeCharacter mixing Miranda Grope and Marvin Prune.
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*** An interesting case about these early characters is the one of concerns Marvin Prune and Miranda Grope. Miranda Grope was the prototype for Miranda Mary Piker, of the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter, but she was the completely complete opposite of Piker, rather being Piker: instead of a no-nonsense, school obsessed, rule-stickling girl, she was a rude, unruly, unruly and nasty and filthy girl that refused child refusing to obey anyone and anything. anyone. Dahl himself called her one of his most "vicious" characters. She was supposed to jump in meet her demise by the Chocolate River River, just like Augustus Gloop (then called "Augustus Pottle"). But whereas Augustus fell into the river for trying to swim in drink it, and Miranda would have rather ''jumped'' on it because she refused to obey to Wonka's rule of not swimming in his chocolate. While the two kids were to be sucked into the pipes alongside Augustus Pottle (future Augustus Gloop). Whereas pipes, Augustus was to be sent to the Chocolate Fudge Room, Room and Miranda was rather sent by the pipes into to the Peanut Bristle Mixer. Meanwhile, the actual prototype for the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter was ''The Children's Delight'', Delight'' chapter, centered around Marvin Prune, a "conceited boy" in Dahl's words words, who was a GenderFlip of future Miranda Mary Piker, making the later a CompositeCharacter mixing Miranda Grope and Marvin Prune.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: There is a widespread belief that the unused chapter of Marvin Prune, called ''The Children-Delight's Room'', is a piece of lost media that Roald Dahl never found back after its manuscript was sent out for a review. For a very long time, [[Website/Wikipedia the Other Wiki]] article for ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' described this chapter as completely lost. In truth, it was never lost: the chapter is stored by and available at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center, also known as the Roald Dahl Archive. As for its content, it is merely a GenderFlip version of Miranda Grope's story in the delted ''Spotty Powder'' chapter.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: There is a widespread belief that the unused chapter of Marvin Prune, called ''The Children-Delight's Room'', is a piece of lost media that Roald Dahl never found back after its manuscript was sent out for a review. For a very long time, [[Website/Wikipedia [[{{Website/Wikipedia}} the Other Wiki]] article for ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' described this chapter as completely lost. In truth, it was never lost: the chapter is stored by and available at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center, also known as the Roald Dahl Archive. As for its content, it is merely a GenderFlip version of Miranda Grope's story in the delted ''Spotty Powder'' chapter.
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** A chapter that was deleted but almost made it to the final draft was ''The Spotty Powder'' chapter, presenting a girl called Miranda Mary Piker, the no-nonsense, school-obsessed, fun-killing daughter of a stern schoolmaster. Upon discovering the titular "Spotty Powder", a type of candy Wonka created that temporarily faked the symptoms of a disease to allow children to [[PlaySick skip school]], Miranda and her father flew into a rage and tried to destroy the machine creating it, only for them to fall down a dark staircase and - at least it is implied by the Oompa-Loompa song - end up swallowed by the machine and turned into a new batch of Spotty Powder. This chapter was notoriously criticized for its very dark content, resulting in it being cut from the book. But it was published several times: a first time by the ''Puffin Post'' in 1973, then in the book ''Scary! Stories that will make you scream'' in 1998, in ''The Times'' in 2005, and finally in 2010 in the book ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
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** A chapter that was deleted but almost made it to the final draft was ''The Spotty Powder'' chapter, presenting a girl called Miranda Mary Piker, the no-nonsense, school-obsessed, fun-killing daughter of a stern schoolmaster. Upon discovering the titular "Spotty Powder", a type of candy Wonka created that temporarily faked the symptoms of a disease to allow children to [[PlaySick [[PlayingSick skip school]], Miranda and her father flew into a rage and tried to destroy the machine creating it, only for them to fall down a dark staircase and - at least it is implied by the Oompa-Loompa song - end up swallowed by the machine and turned into a new batch of Spotty Powder. This chapter was notoriously criticized for its very dark content, resulting in it being cut from the book. But it was published several times: a first time by the ''Puffin Post'' in 1973, then in the book ''Scary! Stories that will make you scream'' in 1998, in ''The Times'' in 2005, and finally in 2010 in the book ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
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*** Most notably, the first drafts had Charlie fail to listen to Wonka's warnings, and ending up in a bad situation after not resisting a temptation - just like the other kids of the tour. Upon entering the Easter Room, where Wonka makes giant chocolate eggs and hyper-realistic chocolate animals, the group discovers the machine preparing Wonka's new Easter product: chocolate children the size of real children. Charlie, out of curiosity, climbs into one of the children-sized molds when nobody is looking, only to get trapped in one of the "Chocolate Boys". Hopefully this particular chocolate-statue was destined as an Easter gift to Willy Wonka's son, Freddy Wonka. After Wonka hid the Chocolate Boy in his living room for the night, so his son could discover it in the morning, Charlie became witness to a robbery in Wonka's house. The following day he is set free from his chocolate prison, and is able to help the police find the burglars - which results in Wonka thanking Charlie by giving him his very own Wonka chocolate shop to run and own.[[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/books/review/roald-dahl-black-charlie-chocolate-factory.html Here is an article]] of ''The New-York Times'' describing the original ending in more details.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' went through numerous drafts, resulting in an abundant amount of unused chapters and early drafts that sometime barely look like the final novel. Dahl notably had plans for other naughty children to be part of the tour, each with their unique demise.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' went through numerous drafts, resulting in an abundant amount of unused chapters and early drafts that sometime barely look like the final novel. Dahl notably had plans for other ideas: a different ending, additional naughty children to be part of that would encounter their demise during the tour, each with their unique demise. different conditions and results for the Golden Ticket contest, and even giving Wonka a son!
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** The general plot was different too: In an early draft Willy Wonka had a son called Freddie, and the story ended with [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] getting his own chocolate ''shop''. There's a lot of information [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]]. Highlights of the could-have-beens:
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** The general plot was also ''very'' different too: In an early draft in the first drafts. Willy Wonka had a son called named Freddie, and Mrs. Bucket was Charlie's companion on the tour rather than Grandpa Joe, the story ended with [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] Charlie getting his own chocolate ''shop''. ''shop'' instead of inheriting Wonka's factory, the Wonka Factory had conventional workers rather than Oompa-Loompas, and instead of elaborate poems verses of an ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''-esque ditty came in the wake of each child's fate... Oh, and Charlie was black. Yes, Charlie was originally explicitly described as a black boy - but [[ExecutiveMeddling Dahl's editor]] convinced him to drop that idea, assuring him that his novel would be more interesting to the audience [[ValuesDissonance if it was about a white character instead]]. There's a lot of information about this early verson of the story here [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]]. Highlights of the could-have-beens:
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** Originally Mrs. Bucket was Charlie's companion on the tour rather than Grandpa Joe, the Wonka Factory had conventional workers rather than Oompa-Loompas, and instead of elaborate poems verses of an ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''-esque ditty came in the wake of each child's fate.
** And very early on, [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] was black. [[ExecutiveMeddling Dahl's editor]] convinced him to drop that idea.
** And very early on, [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] was black. [[ExecutiveMeddling Dahl's editor]] convinced him to drop that idea.
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** And very early on, [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] was black. [[ExecutiveMeddling Dahl's editor]] convinced him to drop that idea.
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** In the very first drafts of the story, the number of children part of the tour went up to fifteen, and this was because the tours of Wonka's factory were originally conceived as weekly events. Plus, in Dahl's original idea, the children were not particularly characterized - the idea of giving them specific flaws and demises coming in later rewrites. On top of Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, Trevor Roper, Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice (all described above), the original children included: Herpes Trout (later becoming Mike Teavee), Augustus Pottle (later renamed Augustus Gloop), Elvira Entwhistle (later renamed Veruca Salt) and Violet Strabismus (the future Violet Beauregarde - who wasn't originally turned into a blueberry by the gum, in Dahl's original drafts she simply had her skin turning blue). An interesting case about these early characters is the one of Marvin Prune and Miranda Grope. Miranda Grope was the prototype for Miranda Mary Piker, of the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter, but she was the completely opposite of Piker, rather being a rude, unruly, nasty and filthy girl that refused to obey anyone and anything. She was supposed to jump in the Chocolate River to swim in it, and be sucked into the pipes alongside Augustus Pottle (future Augustus Gloop). Whereas Augustus was to be sent Chocolate Fudge Room, Miranda was rather sent by the pipes into the Peanut Bristle Mixer. Meanwhile, the actual prototype for the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter was ''The Children's Delight'', chapter, centered around Marvin Prune, a "conceited boy" in Dahl's words who was a GenderFlip of future Miranda Mary Piker, making the later a CompositeCharacter mixing Miranda Grope and Marvin Prune.
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** In the very first drafts of the story, the number of children part of the tour went up to fifteen, and this was because the tours of Wonka's factory were originally conceived as weekly events. Plus, in Dahl's original idea, the children were not particularly characterized - the idea of giving them specific flaws and demises coming in later rewrites. On top of Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, Trevor Roper, Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice (all described above), the original children included: Herpes Trout (later becoming Mike Teavee), Augustus Pottle (later renamed Augustus Gloop), Elvira Entwhistle (later renamed Veruca Salt) and Violet Strabismus (the future Violet Beauregarde - who wasn't originally turned into a blueberry by the gum, in Dahl's original drafts she simply had her skin turning blue).
*** An interesting case about these early characters is the one of Marvin Prune and Miranda Grope. Miranda Grope was the prototype for Miranda Mary Piker, of the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter, but she was the completely opposite of Piker, rather being a rude, unruly, nasty and filthy girl that refused to obey anyone and anything. She was supposed to jump in the Chocolate River to swim in it, and be sucked into the pipes alongside Augustus Pottle (future Augustus Gloop). Whereas Augustus was to be sent Chocolate Fudge Room, Miranda was rather sent by the pipes into the Peanut Bristle Mixer. Meanwhile, the actual prototype for the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter was ''The Children's Delight'', chapter, centered around Marvin Prune, a "conceited boy" in Dahl's words who was a GenderFlip of future Miranda Mary Piker, making the later a CompositeCharacter mixing Miranda Grope and Marvin Prune.
*** An interesting case about these early characters is the one of Marvin Prune and Miranda Grope. Miranda Grope was the prototype for Miranda Mary Piker, of the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter, but she was the completely opposite of Piker, rather being a rude, unruly, nasty and filthy girl that refused to obey anyone and anything. She was supposed to jump in the Chocolate River to swim in it, and be sucked into the pipes alongside Augustus Pottle (future Augustus Gloop). Whereas Augustus was to be sent Chocolate Fudge Room, Miranda was rather sent by the pipes into the Peanut Bristle Mixer. Meanwhile, the actual prototype for the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter was ''The Children's Delight'', chapter, centered around Marvin Prune, a "conceited boy" in Dahl's words who was a GenderFlip of future Miranda Mary Piker, making the later a CompositeCharacter mixing Miranda Grope and Marvin Prune.
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** The original concept for the story didn't have any children in it! After that, there were multiple drafts, each with different numbers of children (anywhere from five up to ''thirty'') with different personalities and fates, as explained below. The general plot was different too: In an early draft the factory tours were a weekly event, Willy Wonka had a son called Freddie, and the story ended with [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] getting his own chocolate ''shop''. There's a lot of information [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]]. Highlights of the could-have-beens:
** Marvin Prune was a very conceited boy.
** Miranda Grope would have disappeared up the pipes along with Augustus Gloop..
** Augustus Gloop was originally named Augustus ''Pottle'', Violet Beauregarde had the alternate last names of Glockenberry and Strabismus, Veruca Salt started out with the name Elvira Entwhistle, and Mike [[MeaningfulName Teavee's]] original name was ''[[UnfortunateNames Herpes Trout]]''.
** Marvin Prune was a very conceited boy.
** Miranda Grope would have disappeared up the pipes along with Augustus Gloop..
** Augustus Gloop was originally named Augustus ''Pottle'', Violet Beauregarde had the alternate last names of Glockenberry and Strabismus, Veruca Salt started out with the name Elvira Entwhistle, and Mike [[MeaningfulName Teavee's]] original name was ''[[UnfortunateNames Herpes Trout]]''.
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** The original concept for In the story didn't have any children in it! After that, there were multiple drafts, each with different numbers very first drafts of the story, the number of children (anywhere from five part of the tour went up to ''thirty'') with different personalities fifteen, and fates, this was because the tours of Wonka's factory were originally conceived as explained below. weekly events. Plus, in Dahl's original idea, the children were not particularly characterized - the idea of giving them specific flaws and demises coming in later rewrites. On top of Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, Trevor Roper, Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice (all described above), the original children included: Herpes Trout (later becoming Mike Teavee), Augustus Pottle (later renamed Augustus Gloop), Elvira Entwhistle (later renamed Veruca Salt) and Violet Strabismus (the future Violet Beauregarde - who wasn't originally turned into a blueberry by the gum, in Dahl's original drafts she simply had her skin turning blue). An interesting case about these early characters is the one of Marvin Prune and Miranda Grope. Miranda Grope was the prototype for Miranda Mary Piker, of the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter, but she was the completely opposite of Piker, rather being a rude, unruly, nasty and filthy girl that refused to obey anyone and anything. She was supposed to jump in the Chocolate River to swim in it, and be sucked into the pipes alongside Augustus Pottle (future Augustus Gloop). Whereas Augustus was to be sent Chocolate Fudge Room, Miranda was rather sent by the pipes into the Peanut Bristle Mixer. Meanwhile, the actual prototype for the ''Spotty Powder'' chapter was ''The Children's Delight'', chapter, centered around Marvin Prune, a "conceited boy" in Dahl's words who was a GenderFlip of future Miranda Mary Piker, making the later a CompositeCharacter mixing Miranda Grope and Marvin Prune.
** The general plot was different too: In an early draftthe factory tours were a weekly event, Willy Wonka had a son called Freddie, and the story ended with [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] getting his own chocolate ''shop''. There's a lot of information [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]]. Highlights of the could-have-beens:
** Marvin Prune was a very conceited boy.
** Miranda Grope would have disappeared up the pipes along with Augustus Gloop..
** Augustus Gloop was originally named Augustus ''Pottle'', Violet Beauregarde had the alternate last names of Glockenberry and Strabismus, Veruca Salt started out with the name Elvira Entwhistle, and Mike [[MeaningfulName Teavee's]] original name was ''[[UnfortunateNames Herpes Trout]]''.could-have-beens:
** The general plot was different too: In an early draft
** Marvin Prune was a very conceited boy.
** Miranda Grope would have disappeared up the pipes along with Augustus Gloop..
** Augustus Gloop was originally named Augustus ''Pottle'', Violet Beauregarde had the alternate last names of Glockenberry and Strabismus, Veruca Salt started out with the name Elvira Entwhistle, and Mike [[MeaningfulName Teavee's]] original name was ''[[UnfortunateNames Herpes Trout]]''.
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** Also in 2014, another unused chapter was released, but this time by ''Vanity Fair'': it was ''The Warming Candies'' chapter, depicting Wonka's invention of a little candy that would keep hot anyone that eats it. A trio of boys named Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside and Trevor Roper, not buying Wonka's strange pseudo-scientific explanation about how he could trap pure heat in the candy, swallowed handfuls of it - ending up massively overheating, and having to be taken into a refrigerator to be cooled down. More info about it [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room here]].
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** Also in 2014, another unused chapter was released, but this time by ''Vanity Fair'': it was was ''The Warming Candies'' chapter, depicting Wonka's invention of a little candy that would keep hot anyone that eats it. A trio of boys named Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside and Trevor Roper, not buying Wonka's strange pseudo-scientific explanation about how he could trap pure heat in the candy, swallowed handfuls of it - ending up massively overheating, and having to be taken into a refrigerator to be cooled down. More info about it [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room here]].
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: There is a widespread belief that the deleted chapter of Marvin Prune, called ''The Children-Delight's Room'', is a piece of lost media that Roald Dahl never found back after its manuscript was sent out for a review. For a very long time, the OtherWiki article for ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' described this chapter as completely lost. In truth, it was never lost: the chapter is stored by and available at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center, also known as the Roald Dahl Archive. As for its content, it is merely a GenderFlip version of Miranda Grope's story in the delted ''Spotty Powder'' chapter.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: There is a widespread belief that the deleted unused chapter of Marvin Prune, called ''The Children-Delight's Room'', is a piece of lost media that Roald Dahl never found back after its manuscript was sent out for a review. For a very long time, [[Website/Wikipedia the OtherWiki Other Wiki]] article for ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' described this chapter as completely lost. In truth, it was never lost: the chapter is stored by and available at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center, also known as the Roald Dahl Archive. As for its content, it is merely a GenderFlip version of Miranda Grope's story in the delted ''Spotty Powder'' chapter.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original concept for the story didn't have any children in it! After that, there were multiple drafts, each with different numbers of children (anywhere from five up to ''thirty'') with different personalities and fates, as explained below. The general plot was different too: In an early draft the factory tours were a weekly event, Willy Wonka had a son called Freddie, and the story ended with [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] getting his own chocolate ''shop''. There's a lot of information [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]]. Highlights of the could-have-beens:
** Miranda Mary Piker was a school-obsessed swot. Rough draft material from this subplot, in which she and her headmaster father meet their comeuppance trying to destroy a machine that makes a powder that allows one to [[PlayingSick play sick]] for the day, is featured in ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
*** Dahl has reported that he cut Miranda's storyline from the book because he worried that it would make Charlie appear unsympathetic to adult readers, as he worried that Charlie's negative reaction to school would be excessive.
** Miranda Mary Piker was a school-obsessed swot. Rough draft material from this subplot, in which she and her headmaster father meet their comeuppance trying to destroy a machine that makes a powder that allows one to [[PlayingSick play sick]] for the day, is featured in ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
*** Dahl has reported that he cut Miranda's storyline from the book because he worried that it would make Charlie appear unsympathetic to adult readers, as he worried that Charlie's negative reaction to school would be excessive.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' went through numerous drafts, resulting in an abundant amount of unused chapters and early drafts that sometime barely look like the final novel. Dahl notably had plans for other naughty children to be part of the tour, each with their unique demise.
** A chapter that was deleted but almost made it to the final draft was ''The Spotty Powder'' chapter, presenting a girl called Miranda Mary Piker, the no-nonsense, school-obsessed, fun-killing daughter of a stern schoolmaster. Upon discovering the titular "Spotty Powder", a type of candy Wonka created that temporarily faked the symptoms of a disease to allow children to [[PlaySick skip school]], Miranda and her father flew into a rage and tried to destroy the machine creating it, only for them to fall down a dark staircase and - at least it is implied by the Oompa-Loompa song - end up swallowed by the machine and turned into a new batch of Spotty Powder. This chapter was notoriously criticized for its very dark content, resulting in it being cut from the book. But it was published several times: a first time by the ''Puffin Post'' in 1973, then in the book ''Scary! Stories that will make you scream'' in 1998, in ''The Times'' in 2005, and finally in 2010 in the book ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
** In 2014, ''The Guardian'' released an unused chapter called ''The Fudge Mountain'' about the tour going by the titular Vanilla Fudge Mountain, from which Wonka gets all of his fudge. The naughty children of this chapter were a duo of boys, Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice, that refused to listen to Wonka's warning of ''not'' riding one of the wagons going into the mines of the Fudge Mountain - resulting in them being sent to the room where the fudge is cut into little pieces and pounded flat... Hopefully for them, Wonka precises there is a strain that should catch them. More info about it [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/roald-dahl-extract-unpublished-chapter-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory here]]
** Also in 2014, another unused chapter was released, but this time by ''Vanity Fair'': it was ''The Warming Candies'' chapter, depicting Wonka's invention of a little candy that would keep hot anyone that eats it. A trio of boys named Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside and Trevor Roper, not buying Wonka's strange pseudo-scientific explanation about how he could trap pure heat in the candy, swallowed handfuls of it - ending up massively overheating, and having to be taken into a refrigerator to be cooled down. More info about it [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room here]].
** The original concept for the story didn't have any children in it! After that, there were multiple drafts, each with different numbers of children (anywhere from five up to ''thirty'') with different personalities and fates, as explained below. The general plot was different too: In an early draft the factory tours were a weekly event, Willy Wonka had a son called Freddie, and the story ended with [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] getting his own chocolate ''shop''. There's a lot of information [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]]. Highlights of thecould-have-beens:
** Miranda Mary Piker was a school-obsessed swot. Rough draft material from this subplot, in which she and her headmaster father meet their comeuppance trying to destroy a machine that makes a powder that allows one to [[PlayingSick play sick]] for the day, is featured in ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
*** Dahl has reported that he cut Miranda's storyline from the book because he worried that it would make Charlie appear unsympathetic to adult readers, as he worried that Charlie's negative reaction to school would be excessive.could-have-beens:
** A chapter that was deleted but almost made it to the final draft was ''The Spotty Powder'' chapter, presenting a girl called Miranda Mary Piker, the no-nonsense, school-obsessed, fun-killing daughter of a stern schoolmaster. Upon discovering the titular "Spotty Powder", a type of candy Wonka created that temporarily faked the symptoms of a disease to allow children to [[PlaySick skip school]], Miranda and her father flew into a rage and tried to destroy the machine creating it, only for them to fall down a dark staircase and - at least it is implied by the Oompa-Loompa song - end up swallowed by the machine and turned into a new batch of Spotty Powder. This chapter was notoriously criticized for its very dark content, resulting in it being cut from the book. But it was published several times: a first time by the ''Puffin Post'' in 1973, then in the book ''Scary! Stories that will make you scream'' in 1998, in ''The Times'' in 2005, and finally in 2010 in the book ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
** In 2014, ''The Guardian'' released an unused chapter called ''The Fudge Mountain'' about the tour going by the titular Vanilla Fudge Mountain, from which Wonka gets all of his fudge. The naughty children of this chapter were a duo of boys, Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice, that refused to listen to Wonka's warning of ''not'' riding one of the wagons going into the mines of the Fudge Mountain - resulting in them being sent to the room where the fudge is cut into little pieces and pounded flat... Hopefully for them, Wonka precises there is a strain that should catch them. More info about it [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/roald-dahl-extract-unpublished-chapter-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory here]]
** Also in 2014, another unused chapter was released, but this time by ''Vanity Fair'': it was ''The Warming Candies'' chapter, depicting Wonka's invention of a little candy that would keep hot anyone that eats it. A trio of boys named Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside and Trevor Roper, not buying Wonka's strange pseudo-scientific explanation about how he could trap pure heat in the candy, swallowed handfuls of it - ending up massively overheating, and having to be taken into a refrigerator to be cooled down. More info about it [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room here]].
** The original concept for the story didn't have any children in it! After that, there were multiple drafts, each with different numbers of children (anywhere from five up to ''thirty'') with different personalities and fates, as explained below. The general plot was different too: In an early draft the factory tours were a weekly event, Willy Wonka had a son called Freddie, and the story ended with [[PinballProtagonist Charlie]] getting his own chocolate ''shop''. There's a lot of information [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-50-years-roald-dahl-quentin-blake here]]. Highlights of the
** Miranda Mary Piker was a school-obsessed swot. Rough draft material from this subplot, in which she and her headmaster father meet their comeuppance trying to destroy a machine that makes a powder that allows one to [[PlayingSick play sick]] for the day, is featured in ''Spotty Powder and Other Splendiferous Secrets''.
*** Dahl has reported that he cut Miranda's storyline from the book because he worried that it would make Charlie appear unsympathetic to adult readers, as he worried that Charlie's negative reaction to school would be excessive.
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** Miranda Grope would have disappeared up the pipes along with Augustus Gloop.
** Wilbur Rice and Timmy Troutbeck rode off atop the carts hauling fudge away from Vanilla Fudge Mountain to [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/roald-dahl-extract-unpublished-chapter-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory The Pounding and Cutting Room]].
** Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, and Trevor Roper ate handfuls of [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room Warming Candies]] and were only saved from inwardly-firey death by being put in a refrigerator.
** Wilbur Rice and Timmy Troutbeck rode off atop the carts hauling fudge away from Vanilla Fudge Mountain to [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/roald-dahl-extract-unpublished-chapter-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory The Pounding and Cutting Room]].
** Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, and Trevor Roper ate handfuls of [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room Warming Candies]] and were only saved from inwardly-firey death by being put in a refrigerator.
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** Miranda Grope would have disappeared up the pipes along with Augustus Gloop.
** Wilbur Rice and Timmy Troutbeck rode off atop the carts hauling fudge away from Vanilla Fudge Mountain to [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/roald-dahl-extract-unpublished-chapter-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory The Pounding and Cutting Room]].
** Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, and Trevor Roper ate handfuls of [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room Warming Candies]] and were only saved from inwardly-firey death by being put in a refrigerator.Gloop..
** Wilbur Rice and Timmy Troutbeck rode off atop the carts hauling fudge away from Vanilla Fudge Mountain to [[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/30/roald-dahl-extract-unpublished-chapter-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory The Pounding and Cutting Room]].
** Clarence Crump, Bertie Upside, and Trevor Roper ate handfuls of [[http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-warming-candy-room Warming Candies]] and were only saved from inwardly-firey death by being put in a refrigerator.
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* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: There is a widespread belief that the deleted chapter of Marvin Prune, called ''The Children-Delight's Room'', is a piece of lost media that Roald Dahl never found back after its manuscript was sent out for a review. For a very long time, the OtherWiki article for ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'' described this chapter as completely lost. In truth, it was never lost: the chapter is stored by and available at the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center, also known as the Roald Dahl Archive. As for its content, it is merely a GenderFlip version of Miranda Grope's story in the delted ''Spotty Powder'' chapter.
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** Originally Augustus was going to be accompanied by his father instead of his mother (which would differentiate it from the 1970’s version). Additionally, the fact that the Oompa-Loompas throw a portrait of Angina/Henrietta Salt down the garbage shoot makes it seem like originally all the brats’ parents were going to be present.
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** Originally Augustus was going to be accompanied by his father instead of his mother (which would differentiate it from the 1970’s version). Additionally, the fact that the Oompa-Loompas throw a portrait of Angina/Henrietta Salt down the garbage shoot makes it seem like originally all the brats’ parents were going to be present.
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Creator Chosen Casting is when the casting of an adaptation is influenced by the creator of the work being adapted, which in this case would be Roald Dahl; the director of the adaptation choosing the cast isn't an example
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/TimBurton only had Creator/JohnnyDepp in mind to play Willy Wonka.
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** Before going with the conceit of adult actors in trick costumes (ala how Lord Farquaad was handled in the stage version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'') to play the Oompa-Loompas, the creators considered either using puppets or casting children in the roles.
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** Before going with the conceit of adult actors in trick costumes (ala how Lord Farquaad was handled in the stage version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'') in ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'') to play the Oompa-Loompas, the creators considered either using puppets or casting children in the roles.
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** Initially the show was set to premiere at the London Palladium, but when the West End production of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} The Musical'' announced its closing notice, leaving the similarly massive Theatre Royal Drury Lane free, plans were changed.
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** Initially the show was set to premiere at the London Palladium, but when the West End production of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} The Musical'' ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'' announced its closing notice, leaving the similarly massive Theatre Royal Drury Lane free, plans were changed.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* ActingForTwo: Every single Oompa-Loompa, even the female ones, are played by Creator/DeepRoy. Some (jackhammer, boat-rowers) are [[UncannyValley completely animatronic.]] Also, though some shots are recycled, minimal CGI was used - rather, ''Roy had to be filmed as each individual Oompa-Loompa.'' Don't worry, he got paid through the ''nose'' for his hard work!
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* ActingForTwo: Every single Oompa-Loompa, even the female ones, are played by Creator/DeepRoy. Some (jackhammer, boat-rowers) are [[UncannyValley completely animatronic.]] animatronic. Also, though some shots are recycled, minimal CGI was used - rather, ''Roy had to be filmed as each individual Oompa-Loompa.'' Don't worry, he got paid through the ''nose'' for his hard work!
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* DeniedParody: Creator/TimBurton went on record as saying this Wonka was '''NOT''' a parody or {{Expy}} of Music/MichaelJackson after the bulk of reviews pointed out the similarities between the two figures -- and, at least in Creator/RogerEbert's review, actually counted it as a point against the film because it came off as so creepy. This is a rather plausible denial, as the resemblances between the two -- both are soft-spoken, pale, UncannyValley-appearing ReclusiveArtist {{Man Child}}ren -- owe more to Burton's usual character aesthetics and Depp taking inspiration from ''Vogue'' magazine editor Anna Wintour in appearance and the original novel's characterization in personality. (Jackson himself had sought the role out when the project was announced for that reason.) Unfortunately, the superficial similarities came along just after Jackson's months-long trial on child molestation charges wrapped up (the nature of the NotHisSled twist in this version may not have helped).
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* DeniedParody: Creator/TimBurton went on record as saying this Wonka was '''NOT''' a parody or {{Expy}} of Music/MichaelJackson after the bulk of reviews pointed out the similarities between the two figures -- and, at least in Creator/RogerEbert's review, actually counted it as a point against the film because it came off as so creepy. This is a rather plausible denial, as the resemblances between the two -- both are soft-spoken, pale, UncannyValley-appearing ReclusiveArtist {{Man Child}}ren -- owe more to Burton's usual character aesthetics and Depp taking inspiration from ''Vogue'' magazine editor Anna Wintour in appearance and the original novel's characterization in personality. (Jackson himself had sought the role out when the project was announced for that reason.) Unfortunately, the superficial similarities came along just after Jackson's months-long trial on child molestation charges wrapped up (the nature of the NotHisSled twist in this version may not have helped).
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** As of 2022, a prequel called Wonka is set to be released in 2023.
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** As of 2022, a prequel called Wonka ''Wonka'' is set to be released in 2023.
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Defictionalization is for products in the story becoming real. There wasn't an inflatable suit in the movie; the inflation was just something that happened. Also, the "NSFW" aspect of this isn't obvious to everyone.
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** Now there also is an '''inflatable blueberry suit''' (obviously NSFW), to imitate Violet's transformation .
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* DoingItForTheArt: With regards to the Nut Room sequence, Tim Burton was so dead set on avoiding using CGI that he paid a team of animal trainers to train 40 real squirrels for it. It took 19 weeks of painstaking work, training each squirrel individually, but they pulled it off. And all for a scene that takes up less than 10 minutes of screen time.
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* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: With regards to the Nut Room sequence, Tim Burton was so dead set on avoiding using CGI that he paid a team of animal trainers to train 40 real squirrels for it. It took 19 weeks of painstaking work, training each squirrel individually, but they pulled it off. And all for a scene that takes up less than 10 minutes of screen time.
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* LoopingLines: In the final scene, [[spoiler:the narrator is portrayed by Creator/DeepRoy while Creator/GeoffreyHolder dubbed his voice]].
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** Penguin Books added the novel to their adult-oriented Penguin Modern Classics line, which went awry due to having a ContemptibleCover. It had several kid-friendlier anniversary editions too, including deluxe reissues of both the Joseph Schindelman ''and'' Quentin Blake-illustrated editions (the latter in full-color for the first time).
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** Penguin Books added the novel to their adult-oriented Penguin Modern Classics line, which went awry due to having a ContemptibleCover.its cover. It had several kid-friendlier anniversary editions too, including deluxe reissues of both the Joseph Schindelman ''and'' Quentin Blake-illustrated editions (the latter in full-color for the first time).
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** After composing Augustus Gloop's song, Music/DannyElfman assumed each Oompa Loompa song would sound just like it, even producing a demo of Veruca's song with the same melody as Gloop's. Instead, Burton suggested the idea that each Oompa Loompa song would have its own style, which Elfman latched onto quickly.
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** A 2006 Disney-style combination boat/simulator ride at the U.K. theme park Ride/AltonTowers.
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** A 2006 Disney-style combination boat/simulator ride at the U.K. theme park Ride/AltonTowers.Ride/AltonTowers, which lasted until 2015.
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* SavedFomDevelopmentHell:
** Development began in 1991 when Creator/WarnerBros and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered into discussions with the Creator/RoaldDahl estate to purchase the rights to the book. The purchase was finalized in 1998, with Dahl's widow and daughte receiving total artistic control and final privilege on the choices of actors, directors and writers.
** Development began in 1991 when Creator/WarnerBros and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered into discussions with the Creator/RoaldDahl estate to purchase the rights to the book. The purchase was finalized in 1998, with Dahl's widow and daughte receiving total artistic control and final privilege on the choices of actors, directors and writers.
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* SavedFomDevelopmentHell:
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** Development began in 1991 when Creator/WarnerBros and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered into discussions with the Creator/RoaldDahl estate to purchase the rights to the book. The purchase was finalized in 1998, with Dahl's widow anddaughte daughter receiving total artistic control and final privilege on the choices of actors, directors and writers.
** Development began in 1991 when Creator/WarnerBros and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered into discussions with the Creator/RoaldDahl estate to purchase the rights to the book. The purchase was finalized in 1998, with Dahl's widow and
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*** Creator/NicolasCage also had discussions for the part of Willy Wonka, but turned down the offer due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/NationalTreasure''.
*** Creator/WarnerBros president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct with Creator/JimCarrey playing Willy Wonka, believing that they could make the story relevant to mainstream audiences, but Liccy Dahl opposed this.
*** Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/BillMurray, Creator/ChristopherWalken, Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/WillSmith, Creator/MikeMyers, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/EricIdle, Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/DustinHoffman, Music/MarilynManson, and Creator/AdamSandler were considered for Willy Wonka as well before the casting of Depp.
** Creator/GregoryPeck and Creator/PeterUstinov were approached for the role of Grandpa Joe before the casting of [[Film/WakingNedDevine David Kelly]]. However, [[Main/DiedDuringProduction both of them unfortunately passed away before they were able to discuss the offer.]]
*** Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/RichardAttenborough, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/GeorgeCarlin, Creator/KirkDouglas, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardGriffiths, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/RonMoody, Creator/PaulNewman, Creator/MaxVonSydow, Creator/EliWallach, and Creator/DavidWarner were also considered for the part of Grandpa Joe before the casting of Kelly.
** Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanCastellaneta, Creator/EdONeill, Creator/RayRomano, Creator/BobSaget, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith[[note]]The original idea for the character was to cast an actor famous for playing a father on a sitcom.[[/note]] were considered for the role of Mr. Teavee before [[Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy Adam Godley]] was cast.
** Creator/SamNeill auditioned for the part of Mr. Salt, but Tim Burton said he wanted Johnny Depp to be the only "name" actor in the movie.
** Creator/RobertZemeckis, Creator/MartinScorsese, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Rob Minkoff]], Creator/BarryLevinson, [[Film/{{Pleasantville}} Gary Ross]], and Creator/FrankOz were approached to direct the movie before Creator/TimBurton was hired.
*** Creator/WarnerBros president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct with Creator/JimCarrey playing Willy Wonka, believing that they could make the story relevant to mainstream audiences, but Liccy Dahl opposed this.
*** Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/MichaelKeaton, Creator/SteveMartin, Creator/BillMurray, Creator/ChristopherWalken, Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/WillSmith, Creator/MikeMyers, Creator/BenStiller, Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/JohnCleese, Creator/EricIdle, Creator/MichaelPalin, Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/DustinHoffman, Music/MarilynManson, and Creator/AdamSandler were considered for Willy Wonka as well before the casting of Depp.
** Creator/GregoryPeck and Creator/PeterUstinov were approached for the role of Grandpa Joe before the casting of [[Film/WakingNedDevine David Kelly]]. However, [[Main/DiedDuringProduction both of them unfortunately passed away before they were able to discuss the offer.]]
*** Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/RichardAttenborough, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/GeorgeCarlin, Creator/KirkDouglas, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardGriffiths, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/RonMoody, Creator/PaulNewman, Creator/MaxVonSydow, Creator/EliWallach, and Creator/DavidWarner were also considered for the part of Grandpa Joe before the casting of Kelly.
** Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanCastellaneta, Creator/EdONeill, Creator/RayRomano, Creator/BobSaget, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith[[note]]The original idea for the character was to cast an actor famous for playing a father on a sitcom.[[/note]] were considered for the role of Mr. Teavee before [[Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy Adam Godley]] was cast.
** Creator/SamNeill auditioned for the part of Mr. Salt, but Tim Burton said he wanted Johnny Depp to be the only "name" actor in the movie.
** Creator/RobertZemeckis, Creator/MartinScorsese, [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Rob Minkoff]], Creator/BarryLevinson, [[Film/{{Pleasantville}} Gary Ross]], and Creator/FrankOz were approached to direct the movie before Creator/TimBurton was hired.
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*** Creator/WarnerBros president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct with Creator/JimCarrey playing Willy Wonka, believing that they could make the story relevant to mainstream audiences, but Liccy Dahl opposed this.
** Creator/GregoryPeck and Creator/PeterUstinov were approached for the role of Grandpa
*** Creator/ChristopherLloyd, Creator/RichardAttenborough, Creator/MichaelCaine, Creator/GeorgeCarlin, Creator/KirkDouglas, Creator/AlbertFinney, Creator/RichardGriffiths, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/RonMoody, Creator/PaulNewman, Creator/MaxVonSydow, Creator/EliWallach, and Creator/DavidWarner were also considered for the part of Grandpa
** Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanCastellaneta, Creator/EdONeill, Creator/RayRomano, Creator/BobSaget, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith[[note]]The original idea for the character was to cast an actor famous for playing a father on a sitcom.[[/note]] were considered for the role of Mr.
** Creator/SamNeill auditioned for the part of Mr. Salt, but
** Creator/RobertZemeckis,
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** Development began in 1991 when Creator/WarnerBros and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered into discussions with the Creator/RoaldDahl estate to purchase the rights to the book. The purchase was finalized in 1998, with Dahl's widow and daughte receiving total artistic control and final privilege on the choices of actors, directors and writers.
** Scott Frank was hired to write the screenplay in February 1999, after approaching the studio for the job. Creator/NicolasCage was in talks to play Willy Wonka, but lost interest. Gary Ross signed to direct in February 2000, which resulted in Frank completing two drafts of the screenplay, before they both left the project in September 2001.
** Rob Minkoff entered negotiations to take over as director in October 2001 and Gwyn Lurie was hired to start from scratch on a new script in February 2002. Lurie was hired because the Dahl estate were impressed with her work on and unmade adaptation of ''Literature/TheBFG''. Creator/MartinScorsese was briefly in talks to direct in April 2002 before leaving to focus on ''Film/TheAviator''.
** Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct with Creator/JimCarrey starring as Willy Wonka, believing that they could make the story relevant to mainstream audiences, but Liccy Dahl opposed this.
** Creator/TimBurton came aboard as director in May 2003. He compared the experience to his time on ''Film/Batman1989'', in how there had been varied creative efforts. Burton hired Pamela Petter, who worked with on ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', to re-write Lurie's script and then John August, who he worked with on ''Film/CorpseBride'', to start from scratch. Principal photography began in June 2004 and finished in December of that year. It was finally released in 2005.
** Development began in 1991 when Creator/WarnerBros and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered into discussions with the Creator/RoaldDahl estate to purchase the rights to the book. The purchase was finalized in 1998, with Dahl's widow and daughte receiving total artistic control and final privilege on the choices of actors, directors and writers.
** Scott Frank was hired to write the screenplay in February 1999, after approaching the studio for the job. Creator/NicolasCage was in talks to play Willy Wonka, but lost interest. Gary Ross signed to direct in February 2000, which resulted in Frank completing two drafts of the screenplay, before they both left the project in September 2001.
** Rob Minkoff entered negotiations to take over as director in October 2001 and Gwyn Lurie was hired to start from scratch on a new script in February 2002. Lurie was hired because the Dahl estate were impressed with her work on and unmade adaptation of ''Literature/TheBFG''. Creator/MartinScorsese was briefly in talks to direct in April 2002 before leaving to focus on ''Film/TheAviator''.
** Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct with Creator/JimCarrey starring as Willy Wonka, believing that they could make the story relevant to mainstream audiences, but Liccy Dahl opposed this.
** Creator/TimBurton came aboard as director in May 2003. He compared the experience to his time on ''Film/Batman1989'', in how there had been varied creative efforts. Burton hired Pamela Petter, who worked with on ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', to re-write Lurie's script and then John August, who he worked with on ''Film/CorpseBride'', to start from scratch. Principal photography began in June 2004 and finished in December of that year. It was finally released in 2005.
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* RemakeCameo: In the Brazilian dub, Grandpa George is voiced by Jomeri Pozzoli, who voiced Mr. Slugworth in the first dub of the 1971 version.
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Fetish Fuel should never be linked to.
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* FetishFuel: Deserves a mention since it originated a very infamous fetish: the blueberry transformation. Apparently there are a lot of people who'd like to become a giant blueberry... for whatever deviant reason there is.
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