Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

On the data. The key thing: the three films are not a series. Each is a separate version made by different people decades apart, and none of them is a sequel or a continuation of another. Watching all three means watching the same story told three ways, plus a prequel to none of them in particular. Roald Dahl disowned the 1971 film. He wrote an early draft and was unhappy with what it became, particularly the songs and the way the title moved the focus from Charlie to Wonka. He refused to sell the rights to the sequel novel because of it, which is why Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator has never been made. The Oompa-Loompas have a real history problem. In the 1964 first edition they are African pygmies brought to work in the factory, and the book describes them in terms that were criticised at the time and are indefensible now. Dahl rewrote them in 1973 as small orange people from Loompaland. Later editions have been revised again. Which version you have depends on the printing. The 2005 film invents a backstory about Wonka's dentist father that appears nowhere in Dahl. The 2023 film invents a whole youth for him. Neither has any source. The sequel novel is genuinely bizarre: the elevator goes into space, there is a hotel in orbit, there are alien creatures called Vermicious Knids and there is a plot about ageing pills. Nobody has adapted it and it is worth reading for that reason alone.

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