Quote Originally Posted by LifeAsABullet
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.
Roald Dahl died in 1990. While I'm sure he would have been impressed, as the tone of this movie was more toward the books.. I don't see him expressing it anytime soon.