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Willy Wonka is a fictional character who owns a chocolate factory in Roald Dahl's children's books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
A musical film adaptation of Dahl's classic, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder, was released in 1971. The film was originally a box office flop but today is seen as a cult classic.
Another version of the tale, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, was released in 2005 which in contrast was an immediate success, although, of course, this was more than three decades later.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tells a story about eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka and Charlie Bucket, a good-hearted boy from a poor family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's factory.
One day Wonka announces he will open his famous factory to five lucky children who find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka chocolate bars. Charlie is one those lucky kids and wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world.