Tim Burton, himself, is a wonderful producer (and movie genious!) and sadly enough, the previous director did what HE wanted to do with the film and Roald Dahl wasen't happy with it. I heard that he was much more impressed by this film and Johnny Depp has always been my personal fave actor Looking at the new film, it just put the old one to shame only because it wasen't what Roald Dahl wanted.