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John Wirt – the Advocate – Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride: Director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are reunited for this stop-motion animated fantasy set to open September 23. (Just Announced: Opening in selected cities September 16) Set in a 19th-century European village, the film follows Victor (Depp), a bridegroom-to-be who disappears into the underworld. He marries the mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter) there. Meanwhile, Victor’s despairing intended bride, Victoria (Emily Watson), waits for him in the land of the living. Voice talent includes Albert Finney, Joanna Lumley and Christopher Lee.
Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka WITH his talent and looks, he would be forgiven for being loud and obnoxious. – By Peter Mitchell – September 01, 2005.
Women love him and men have a right to be jealous of him. But on a steamy afternoon at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas, Johnny Depp is as gentle and sheepish as a sober nerd at a school formal. Deeply tanned from six months in the sun, Depp has taken a short break from shooting the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels near the resort to chat about Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. He speaks in whispers, is polite and intelligent and sweet.
It was not always the way, he says. As a kid his mother had a special name for him.
“She used the term hellion,” laughs Depp. “I wasn’t obnoxious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.”
Depp is a Hollywood chameleon, switching from dirty Jack Sparrow to tidy playwright James Barrie in Finding Neverland, Constable Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow to Edward Scissorhands.
Now he is Willy Wonka, the weird chocolate mogul in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, the remake of the Roald Dahl classic.
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Released in the UK on 29th July Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the second adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic. In the brand new version the film star Johnny Depp is sure to make Dahl collectables hot property this year.
Merchandise for the Elm is stacked up in stores ranging from lunch boxes for kids to golden ticket cufflinks for adults. Hang on to your packaging, stash away those mint books and hide away those promotional posters because Charlie and the Chocolate Factory collectables should rocket.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in 1964 in the US and followed on in the UK in 1967. The book was a huge success and has since been published in 32 languages selling 13.7 million copies. Today everyone knows the story of Charlie Bucket who eats cabbage soup because his family are so poor. One day he is lucky enough to find a golden ticket to visit the famous Wonka factory. Four naughty children, hundreds of Oompa Loompas and the eccentric Willy Wonka all add to the tale those generations of children have adored. Roald Dahl found C Charlie and the Chocolate Factory one of the most difficult books to write and originally had 15 children in the book. He showed his first draft to his nephew, Nicholas, who after reading it through, told his Uncle that it was rotten and boring! Dahl went back to the drawing board and after condensing the characters down to just five children created the story that we all love today.
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By Helen Barlow – Kids love him, teens think he’s cool, girls of all ages drool over his looks and charm, while parents and grannies find him endearing. Having cleaned up his act to become a doting parent, he has won a new respectability, and now with his box office clout he can make whatever movie he pleases.
But still the question remains: underneath all the disguises just who is the real Johnny Depp? In movies he has worked with the most creative and eccentric of directors and actors. His debut was in Cry-Baby with John Waters and then came Edward Scissorhands. His excursion into the mainstream as a regular accountant chasing the clock in Nick of Time, directed by the highly respected John Badham, flopped at the box office, and he looked most sexy when he reluctantly played a latter-day Rudolph Valentino in Don Juan DeMarco, which he only did to work with Marlon Brando.
Brando, another adventurer who also became his friend, came out of retirement to feature in the only film Depp would ever direct, The Brave, which played only in a couple of tiny Parisian cinemas.
“I don’t think you can spend more than two minutes with Marlon Brando without walking away with an unforgettable experience and with an education,” he says. The Brave was hardly a gripping experience, though its native American theme showed that Depp was keen to explore his part-Cherokee roots.
He had appeared already in the Native American-themed Dead Man for his friend Jim Jarmusch,
He is so talented and good-looking, he would be forgiven for being loud and obnoxious.
Women love him and men have a right to be jealous.
Johnny Depp could have a supermodel on his arm any day of the week, but here he is on a recent sweaty afternoon at the Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas as gentle and sheepish as a sober nerd at a school formal.
Depp, deeply suntanned from six months in the tropical sun, has taken a short break from shooting the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels nearby the resort to stop by and chat about his latest film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
He speaks in whispers, is polite and intelligent and is so sweet you want to give him a hug, or maybe a clip across the ear and tell him not to be so well-behaved.
It was not always the way, he says.
As a kid his mother had a special name for him.
“She used the term ‘hellion’,” Depp, on this day looking part scallywag pirate and part Parisian artist, laughs, albeit quietly, as he explains.
“I wasn’t obnoxious or precocious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.”
Depp looks part pirate because he has just walked off the Pirates of the Caribbean set.
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contactmusic.com – GILLIAM STUNNED BY LACK OF INTEREST IN DEPP/WILLIAMS FILM
Movie maverick TERRY GILLIAM is amazed that a planned movie starring JOHNNY DEPP and ROBIN WILLIAMS is still on the shelf – because American investors can’t raise $15 million (GBP8.3 million).
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Gilliam stunned by lack of interest in Depp / Williams Film.