New Charlie poster
I haven’t seen a physical version of it yet, but JoBlo.com has the artwork for the second Charlie and the Chocolate Factory poster. This one shows Freddie Highmore as Charlie, along with his four rotten tour-mates (Mike Teavee, Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde and Veruca Salt).
Before you ask:
No, I don’t get any input on posters. I’m just happy my name is spelled correctly.
No, I don’t know if this is the final poster, or if there will be a different one for Europe/Australia/Loompa-Land. My hunch is that the marketing people are pretty industrious folks, so there are many other potential one-sheets which may eventually become foreign posters and/or newspaper ads.
July 15th is the opening date for North America. I don’t know yet when it will open in the U.K. and other countries.
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April 4th, 2005 at 5:22 pm
That link gives a server forbidden error; I found this instead: http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=7080
April 4th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
Sweet…. Love the part with your name in it.
April 5th, 2005 at 1:56 am
Maybe I’m just a freak, but some of that imagery from this poster and movie trailer reminded me of the left and middle panels of the Bosch triptych Garden of Earthly Delights.
http://www.boschuniverse.org/hisworks/gardenofearthly_delights/large.jpg
April 5th, 2005 at 9:14 am
Good call, Max. And thanks for upping the class of this here website.
Hieronymus Bosch that, artfulwriter.com!
April 5th, 2005 at 9:51 am
Call me schizoid, but personally, I saw the poster leaning more towards Mark Ryden, the background landscapes in particular.
Which, I might add, is an amazing exhibit up in Pasadena for you fine L.A. folks.
April 5th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
John,
Any possibility that you’ll be posting the script after the film is released?
April 5th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
Hard to say if I’ll be able to. Warner Bros. and the Dahl estate control the underlying rights. Sony and Daniel Wallace were generous enough to let me do it for Big Fish, but that’s a different situation.
I’ll certainly ask when it’s appropriate.
April 10th, 2005 at 4:57 am
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” will open in Denmark in city of Aarhus 5 august 2005. Sometimes the titles are changed to Danish when a movie opens in Denmark. For instance “THE INCREDEBLESâ€? was changed to “De Utroligeâ€? This title could easily have been changed to “Charlie og Chokolade Fabrikkenâ€?, but this movie has the same title as the original. I look forward to se it.
April 10th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
Nice - I don’t think I’d seen these before….
Just found your blog through another writer’s blog - I used to read loads of the “Ask a Filmmaker” stuff on IMDb, but haven’t kept up with it quite as much as I’d like to have done….
Ah well - looking forward to seeing the whole film (I’m on the VFX for it, so I’ve seen small bits of the film…)