Problem on the set of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 2:41am

I read that filming was halted for two days because of a delicious accident.

There was a vat of chocolate, and they were testing some camera angles before they brought the actors in to shoot the scene.

An overhead camera fell, vroooooom SPLAT! Into the vat! They took the camera out and had a delicious Chocolate Covered Camera treat!

Johnny Depp stars as Wonka, and Freddie Highmore as Charlie. Tim Burton directs.

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 2:52am

I dont remember there being chocolate in that paticular film

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 2:58am

I hope you are kiddin'.

[BWayBoy88]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 3:01am

I am still mad that they are making this movie. The original was such a great movie. Why do producers feel the need to tamper with good movies by making remakes that are nothing like the original.

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 3:03am

jrb, i hate to be the one to tell you, but your shirt in that picture is looking a bit, oh how do i say this... Coral?

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 7:58am

The answer is simple BwayBoy, the movie Willie Wonka was very different than the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it was based on. Tim Burton is going back to the original source and making a non musical which hopefully will be closer in feeling to the book than that horrible musical movie you are referring to. This isn't a remake but a new version.

Also if producers didn't feel a need to "tamper with good movies", there would be almost nothing on Broadway right now: Producers, Hairspray, 42nd street, Chicago (Based on the film Roxie Hart), Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop among others. Updated On: 8/11/04 at 07:58 AM

[ckeaton]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 9:14am

I'm looking forward to the film.
I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp's work, especially with Tim Burton!

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 9:43am

Even Sleepy Hollow?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 11:29am

I've always thought that if it is cool to see revivals of plays and musicals, why wouldn't it be cool to see (good) remakes of films? This sounds incredible, and if it bombs, we still have the original film to run back to.

bob--the shirt is orange. But what would it matter if it were coral? Your point, really?

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 11:41am

omg, jrb, that shirt makes you look like a such a homo! i mean, god, didn't you notice when you looked in the mirror that something was a bit queer?

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 11:44am

That's why I bought it!! lol

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 11:59am

holy astroglide, a**man, i think that jrb's playing for one of those teams where they all have their own stick!

[ckeaton]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 12:32pm

Especially 'Sleepy Hollow'.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 12:35pm

Really? I wanted to love it but I just couldn't. Wasn't overly keen on Big Fish either. Hopefully this film will be a return to form for Tim Burton.

[ckeaton]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 12:44pm

Oh man... I cried like a baby at the end of 'Big Fish'. I thought it was beautiful.

(But then again, my father had recently passed away from a stroke, so it was especially potent)

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 5:49pm

This version is going to be much darker, like the book.

Why tamper with the original movie classic? Shouldn't the REAL question be why the 1971 film tampered with the original novel classics??

I do love the film, and Gene Wilder was great, but that film is its own.

I look forward to this new interpretation.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 5:50pm

I LOVE the book.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 5:58pm

Dragon's SpeakNaturally software program has you read the novel for voice recognition. Otherwise, I probably would have never read it.

[ChiChi]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 6:11pm

Now, I haven't kept up with this very much. Have they said whether or not this is going to be a musical, or is it simply its own adaption of the book?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/11/04 at 6:14pm

Non-musical.