Zoals wellicht bekend is gaat regisseur Tim Burton (Mars Attacks!, Ed Wood, Batman Returns, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish) een film maken naar aanleiding van Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory uit 1971. Johhny Depp zal daarin de rol gaan spelen van Willy Wonka, de eigenaar een enorme chocoladefabriek (in het origineel gespeeld door Gene Wilder). Depp zei onlangs in een gesprek met MTV het volgende over dit project:
[eng]"It's Tim's version of Roald Dahl's classic book and it's gonna be a wild ride. Tim and I have had a couple of meetings, sat down and had some talks about where he wants to go, where we need to go. And I think it's gonna be great, you know? Big shoes [to fill], though. Gene Wilder did such an awesome job in that film in the early '70s, so I mean, taking that character of Willy Wonka and going somewhere completely different is ... he sort of made the job infinitely more difficult for me."[/eng]
