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Details On The New Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Shows · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, writer, director, and all
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Speaker 1: around visionary. Tyka White. TD just took home his first
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Speaker 1: Oscar Best adapted screenplay for Jojo Rabbit, based on the
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Speaker 1: novel Caging Skies, and for one of his next projects,
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Speaker 1: he'll be adapting another book, one of the most beloved
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Speaker 1: children's stories of all time, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
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Speaker 1: which was famously adapted into films twice, previously, one starring
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Speaker 1: Gene Wilder playing Willy Wonka and the other time with
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Speaker 1: Johnny Depp in the role. This time, however, Tica will
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Speaker 1: be transforming the book into two different animated Netflix series.
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Speaker 1: According to Deadline, the first show be based on all
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Speaker 1: the characters in the book. The second will be a
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Speaker 1: bigger picture, focusing on the Umpa lumpas the tiny odd
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Speaker 1: factory workers who make all the candy in the Chocolate Factory.
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Speaker 1: Both shows will expand quite a bit beyond the original story.
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Speaker 1: Netflix has been looking to develop Charlie and the Chocolate
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Speaker 1: Factory for quite a while now. The minute they met Tika,
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Speaker 1: they knew they found their man. That's Direct from Hollywood.