I love people assume that since the author's name is in the credits as a writer that doesn't mean that studio tampering didn't completely overhaul the script they wrote. happened with Dahl on this film and Nabokov on Lolita.

"Roald Dahl was reportedly so angry with the treatment of his book (mainly stemming from the massive rewrite by David Seltzer) that he refused permission for the book's sequel, "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator", to be filmed. Seltzer had an idea for a new sequel, but legal issues meant that it never got off the ground."

"Stories concerning author Roald Dahl's immense dissatisfaction with this film are legendary; in fact, he was so unhappy that he refused to ever watch the completed film in its entirety. Once, while staying in a hotel, he accidentally tuned into a television airing of the movie, but reportedly changed the channel immediately when he realized what he was watching."

Dahl HATED WW&TCF. that's why his estate had it remade. Not to mention that it deviates so completely from the source material. Wonka magically likes kids, is a father figure, Charlie behaves badly but still gets rewarded. the entire crux and journey of the characters were changed. it's a bad adaptation of the book. it's a decent film.

i prefer the remake for numerous reasons.