From The Archives: Tim Burton – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory0

by Daniel Robert Epstein

“I did keep the Oompa-Loompa psychiatrist chair which is very appropriate and very comfortable actually.”
– Tim Burton

Tim Burton’’s film, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is his best work since 1994’’s Ed Wood. I would say that casting Johnny Depp as the obsessive compulsive child hating Willy Wonka is an inspired choice, but since this is their fourth collaboration that point appears to be moot. Depp has totally and completely entered himself into Roald Dahl’s universe and given himself over to this wild and wooly character with chocolate running in his veins.

Read our exclusive interview with Tim Burton on SuicideGirls.com.