# Johnny Depp is the new Willy Wonka & a $ 300,000 camera gets dropped in chocolate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 20, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970 "2004-07-20T08:06:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/21 "2004-07-20T23:11:28Z")
For some reason when I read this thread title I thought that Johnny Depp had agreed to do the part of Willy Wonka in exchange for a $300,000 camera, and a chance to be dipped in a vat of chocolate. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/22 "2004-07-20T23:20:23Z")
Defintely a crunchy, not chewy, center to this one. ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/23 "2004-07-20T23:31:45Z")
> [@Wearia](#): > > For some reason when I read this thread title I thought that Johnny Depp had agreed to do the part of Willy Wonka in exchange for a $300,000 camera, and a chance to be dipped in a vat of chocolate. Do you realize that a chocolate-dipped Johnny Depp is the kind of stuff dreams are made of? ---
**Author:** ![Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/24 "2004-07-21T00:46:31Z")
> [@JavaMaven1](#): > > Do you realize that a chocolate-dipped Johnny Depp is the kind of stuff dreams are made of? Amen. ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/25 "2004-07-21T02:13:55Z")
I would have cast Robin Williams or Eddie Murphy as Wonka but Williams as the first choice, and if Bow Wow were still 12 years old then I would have had him as Charlie. Bow Wow plays a good poor, pitiful yet good hearted kid as seen in the film “Like Mike”. James Earl Jones as Slugsworth, The kid who plays beans on “Even Stevens” as Mike Teevee, One of the fat kids from “Nutty Professor” as Augustus Gloop, I have more that I will write later…I wish I was a casting director for that film. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/26 "2004-07-21T05:18:21Z")
_Oompa loompa doobity dee Chocolate covered Depp sounds yummy to me! Oompa loompa doobity doo…_ Oh, heck with it. I’m off to take a cold shower. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/27 "2004-07-21T05:46:43Z")
> [@the Lady](#): > > So a whole new generation of kids can be deeply disturbed by Oompa Loompas. The Oompa Loompas never bothered me, but the sight of Augustus Gloop going up the tube did; and so did the scene in the tunnel/cave with all that weird stuff showing up on the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/28 "2004-07-21T12:15:47Z")
I have seen Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Carribean, and 21 Jump Street, but I still don’t understand why Johnny Depp has a career. Is there something else I should have seen? ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/29 "2004-07-21T12:54:48Z")
> [@JavaMaven1](#): > > Do you realize that a chocolate-dipped Johnny Depp is the kind of stuff dreams are made of? You mean, all of his body covered with 3rd degree burns because of the high-temperature molten chocolate? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/30 "2004-07-21T13:17:42Z")
> [@SaxFace](#): > > Awwww, man! Why do they have to remake perfection? ☹ I agree (though I also agree that Johnny Depp would be a good Willy Wonka as a second choice after Gene Wilder). Can’t they come up with something original? Next they’ll be remake _Singin’ in the Rain_, _The Wizard of Oz_ and _The Sound of Music_ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chunky\_Bum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Chunky\_Bum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chunky_Bum)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/31 "2004-07-21T13:52:14Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I have seen Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Carribean, and 21 Jump Street, but I still don’t understand why Johnny Depp has a career. Is there something else I should have seen? _Cry Baby What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Benny & Joon Ed Wood Donnie Brasco Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas Sleepy Hollow_ ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/32 "2004-07-21T14:11:40Z")
From what I understand, this movie will be based even more on the book than the first movie was. And did you know that _The Wizard of Oz_ itself was a remake of an [older movie](http://imdb.com/title/tt0016544/combined)? Sometimes remakes aren’t all bad. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970/33 "2004-07-21T14:22:49Z")
> [@](#): > > And did you know that The Wizard of Oz itself was a remake of an older movie? Sometimes remakes aren’t all bad. The 1939 **Wizard of Oz** isn’t really a remake of an earlier version – it’s a brand new interpretation of the book. And there wasn’t just one earlier version – L. Frank Baum;s own film company made several Oz “shorts” before Larry Semon made his 1925 silent version. The Semon version isn’t awful. It’s notable for Oliver Hardy (pre-Laurel and Hardy) as the Tin Woodsman. Some of the jokes are questionable/racist, but in an age that gives us **White Chicks** I’m not sure I have a right to complain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-depp-is-the-new-willy-wonka-a-300-000-camera-gets-dropped-in-chocolate/255970.md?page=1)