OK.  I just watched that trailor 5 times in a row.  After careful study, I have reached a conclusion that will shock movie-loving audiences everywhere.  Look carefully at “Johnny Depp.”  Check out the hair.  The shape of his face.  The outlandish clothes.  The strange mannerism.  The fact that he’s surrounded by children…

I submit to you good people, that Willy Wonka is NOT actually being performed by Johnny Depp as Burton would have us think.  No!  Watch the trailer again very carefully.  I think you’ll agree that Willy Wonka is actually being performed by none other than…

MICHAEL JACKSON!!!!!!!!

Now, watch that trailer again…and try to get THAT thought out of your head!  Bwaahahahahahah!

I’ll be interested in seeing the remake as well as everyone else, but I will admit, Johnny Depp’s makeup and costume completely freak me out.  Hubby made the connection to the Clockwork Orange poster that someone else made, but my mom had the worst observation: he looks like a child molester.  *shudders*

I saw the original on video when I was about seven and had Oopmpa-Loompa nightmares all night. I got up the next morning and immediately watched it again.

I wasn’t overly impressed with the trailer, but I’ll be there nevertheless. If anyone could pull of this remake, it’s Depp and Burton.

Ben, I was thinking *the exact same thing* and it was freaking me out just a little.

Thanks OB!

Looks like 21 July 2005 for NL release…

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367594/releaseinfo

I noticed a lot of the imagery seems fairly gothic.  Not like we normally think gothic, but drastically contrasted.  The pictures of the candy canes seem classic Tim Burton.  We picture perfect candy canes and the ones in the movie have these strange seemingly imperfect twiggy extensions.  I really like simple unique images like that.

It’s the teeth!  He’s got these blindingly white, absolutely perfect set of choppers that are somehow just, as you said, DISTURBING.

It’s his pallor.  That milky-white complextion against that auburn hair is surreal.  Of course, you’d expect that from someone who’s spent ten years locked in a chocolate factory with no sight of the outside world.  Nice touch, IMO.

No, I’m afraid not. I wonder if there’s someplace online that info like that could be found? There’s gotta be someplace where they track release dates for around the world, right?

Anyone any idea when it’s released in my part of the world, being The Netherlands?