Everybody loved the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factorystarring Gene Wilder. Everybody except for the guy who wrote the original (and the screenplay): Roald Dahl. "He hated it," says Lucy Dahl, 44, the author's youngest daughter. "In fact, I heard he wanted to get his name off the credits, but they wouldn't let him." Dahl also didn't care for the 1990 version of The Witches, and if he were still alive, we're not sure he'd have been impressed by Matilda(directed by Danny DeVito), James and the Giant Peach(the peach looked more like Cinderella's pumpkin), or Tim Burton's Wonkaremake (with Johnny Depp channeling Michael Jackson). "My father always hated his books being made into films because he wrote in a style that is very difficult for a filmmaker to reproduce," says Lucy. "A lot of filmmakers have come up against the problem of how to keep what he does so well: funny tragedy." (Article continued below...)
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