Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a novel whose plot involved the protagonist getting a winning card and gaining entrance to something when he least expected it. Both Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor thought this was similar to the Percy the Porcupine promotion — every time someone bought something downtown, they got a scratchcard. If they got the right number, they could collect their prize. When Rose took her chances, she thought of Charlie: "When you're waiting, hoping, desperate to win, you never do. But then, out of the blue, you get another chance. And that's the one. That's how it works." (PROSE: Winner Takes All)

Behind the scenes

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was written by Roald Dahl.

Several DWU cast and crew are shared with the film adaptations of the novel, Mel Stuart's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Paul King's prequel film Wonka.

During production of Doctor Who in 2004, when the 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film was also being made, Russell T Davies and Phil Collinson complained of difficulty in finding actors of small stature to portray the Crespallions in The End of the World [+]Loading...["The End of the World (TV story)"] as "bloody Gringotts and the Chocolate Factory are filming at the same time."[1]

Jon Pertwee was considered at one point to play the title character in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.