David Germain of the Associated Press says Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one big studio film remake that actually improves on the original! The visual feast is jam packed with the imaginative to wondrous to socially creepy when compared to the 1971 version. We’ve come a long way from corny, cheesy and hokey…the quaint relic.
Johnny Depp rips through Restoration England with a bottle of wine under one arm, a whore under the other – By Matthew Rose.
In the mid-’90s, John Malkovich approached Depp about starring as the earl in this adaptation of Stephen Jeffreys’s play, after portraying the rake himself at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. “My first reaction was, ‘Why not you?’ ” Depp recalls. ” ‘You’re so good. You should do it.’ And he said, ‘No, no, no, I want you to play it.’ ” Politeness aside, it’s a raunchy role Depp was born to play: Think Jack Sparrow meets the Marquis de Sade.
The scene at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on July 10, 2005 was colorful with crowds of Deppheads as Hollywood Star Johnny Depp attended the premiere of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Depp, who plays the reclusive Willy Wonka is deliberately disconnected from reality. Vanessa Paradis, Frankie Muniz, Brittany Spears, and Darrel Hannah were also in attendance.
The following highlights are provided by the bbc uk edition:
Johnny Depp said his inspiration for the Wonka character was “part game show host, part children’s show host… locked in a closet for about 10 or 15 years”. But he has denied rumours that he based his performance on Michael Jackson. “It never entered my mind,” he told Sydney’s Herald Sun newspaper, saying the character was more similar to reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
Tim Burton also directed Depp in Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow “I think Johnny brings a great edge to Willy Wonka,” he said. “He invites kids to the factory and gives them sweets and chocolates, but on the other hand the four of them meet a sticky end.”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is out in the US on Friday 10 July and the UK on 29 July.
© bbc.co.uk. Reprinted with permission.
Last night…or last evening, depending on where you’re living, Johnny appeared at the CATCF premiere in L.A.
As well Freddie Highmore and Vanessa Paradis.
I already uploaded them, so you’ll find some…some more…pics in the galleries:
https://johnny-depp.org/gallery/appearances/2005-07-10.php
But I’ll give you a short preview:
From July 13th until August 8th, I (Martina=Admin) am traveling to
Spain with my family sleeping in tents and so without any chance to get
access to the Internet.
So I cannot read your emails until then and have to leave this site
alone without any updates.
Conny will in this time get all the emails I would get and will answer
the important ones, but I would prefer, if you would just wait the time
to contact me.
Anyway – I hope, everything will work without me with the great
staffers of jdorg helping me.
Take care, Martina.
I added the 2005 galleries for the inofficial galleries/appearances (except of
one single appearance) –
check them out here:
Additionally I started creating a timeline through the look of Johnny
with the single preview pics here:
timeline
I added nearly 100 pics of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Premiere in LA:
Sean Axmaker – Special to MSN Entertainment – July 10, 2005 – Is Johnny Depp a star because of his idiosyncratic choices or despite them? He doesn’t play by movie star rules, and he has consistently steered clear of big budget, high profile productions, focusing rather on a wide array of challenging roles and eccentric characters…
By Nancy Lofholm – Denver Post – Johnny Depp has hired an events planner to see to the details of the memorial being planned for writer/journalist Hunter S. Thompson who took his life Feb. 20. The private ceremony will be held in August in Woody Creek, Colorado where Thompson’s ashes will be fired from a canon onto his property…
As Johnny emerged from his black SUV he immeadiatly turned to us, his fans, and waved. As he crossed the street and made his way down the line he made personal contact with each and everyone of his fans. When he got to me he looked at me, ME, right in the eye and signed the picture I was holding. I looked at him ,then glanced down and saw the 3 tattoo. As he handed me back my picture He said, while looking into my eyes, “Thank You” I said NO..THANK YOU!” and I reached out and touched his 3 tattoo while he was still holdong the picture..he smiled and the sun glinted off his gold teeth, and he said softly, yet firmly..NO THANK YOU!” I have pictures to share but I am still on cloud 9 and running every moment over and over in my mind. I forgot how to log onto the internet and load pictures. I will post one then regroup myself and come back with more.. My one dream of getting a glimpse of Johnny and touching him has come true!
When I touched Johnny’s hand and his 3 it was just really a natural feeling to touch it! Like I have known that symbol for so long. He was holding the pic I handed him, had finished signing it, and I reached for the photo and my two fingers of my left hand, the index and middle one, just reached over, started at the finger nail of his thumb,