Tim Burton’s 10 Best Movie Adaptations

7) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

As was demonstrated when the incomparable actor recently passed away, the only Willy Wonka in the public imagination is Gene Wilder. That rather shows how Charlie and the Chocolate Factory failed to make much of an impression on audiences when it arrived in 2005.

The movie is certainly not a failure, as it mostly succeeds in doing what Burton set out to do and adapting the Roald Dahl novel more faithfully than the 1971 film. There is a superfluous new backstory, but at least it features Christopher Lee as Wonka’s father. The real problem is that Burton and Depp turn Wonka from the charismatic, enigmatic hero of the first film into a Michael Jackson-esque man-child who it’s hard to love in the same way as Wilder’s take.