In 2018, it was announced that Netflix had obtained the right from the Roald Dahl Story Company to produce animated works based on Dahl's books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (This is impressive as it's not yet in the public domain.) Perhaps Roald Dahl's best-known work, this 1964 children's novel has since become Adaptation Overdosed with everything from two films and a stage musical to a theme park ride and video games. When only Charlie is left, Wonka reveals he was actually looking for an heir and promises to leave the factory to Charlie. The five children tour the factory, a wonderland of bizarre and improbable inventions, but one by one the children suffer almost lethal karmic fates, each underscored by a moralising Crowd Song from Mr. Willy Wonka himself proves to be an eccentric inventor, obsessed with confectionery.

The other four children turn out to be deeply unpleasant: Augustus Gloop is a glutton, Veruca Salt is a Spoiled Brat, Mike Teavee is obsessed with violent TV and Violet Beauregarde is a rude, pushy, compulsive gum-chewer. When Willy Wonka, a reclusive businessman, announces a competition to allow five lucky children into his chocolate factory (a place so secretive that no one, not even its workforce, is ever seen entering or leaving it), Charlie manages to find the last of the Golden Tickets against high odds. Front cover text from the original editionĬharlie Bucket is an angelic boy who lives with his parents and grandparents in a small hovel.

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