Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 film based on the 1964 children's book of the same title by author Roald Dahl (see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). It was directed by Tim Burton and stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket.

Trivia

• Deep Roy played every Oompa Loompa himself, repeating the same movements several hundred times. While these were then put together digitally, each Oompa Loompa represents a separate performance by Roy.
• The Oompa Loompa whom Wonka orders to take Violet to the Juicing Room had appearently tested the gum and turned into a blueberry, as his face was blue.
• Of the 110,000 candy bars made, only 1,850 were real. The rest were made of plastic. They were prepared by the Nestle corporation for the movie.
• 40 squirrels were trained from birth for six months to crack nuts for Veruca Salt's Nut Room scene. It took 10 weeks to shoot the nut-cracking sequence.
• There are buttons in the glass elevator marked Crusty Cream Puff, Television Room, Brain Aches, Clotted Cream Room, Fizzy Lifting Drinks, Fudge Fallout Shower, Incompetent Fools, Mechanical Clouds, Orange Egg Flip, Root Beer Goggles, Scratch and Sniff Room, Cocoa Cats, Black Box of Frogs, Brussel Sprout Ice Cream, Cheese and Anchovies, Dodgy Accents, Eight Till Latte Room, Rubber Forest, Large Cavity, Nice Plums, Pastry Room, Heart Shaped Lungs, Projection Room, Secretarial Poodles, T-Bone Steak Jell-O, Stars in their Pies, Up And Out, and Fragile Egos.
• Willy Wonka's father, played by Christopher Lee, did not appear in Roald Dahl's novel. The character was written specifically for the movie to give Wonka some family history.
• Danny Elfman's opening music is reminiscent of his theme to Mars Attacks!.
• The name of the toothpaste at the toothpaste factory where Charlie's father works is called "Smilex". The same name of Joker's poison in Batman.