First published in 1964, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a story about honesty, love, greed, humility and redemption, with a little adventure thrown in for good measure. It's a strategy Dahl, who also wrote James and the Giant Peach, knew well.

Tim Burton's big-budget Hollywood version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has Johnny Depp as the eccentric, reclusive Willy Wonka. It, of course, follows the 1971 film adaptation (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, with the decidedly American Gene Wilder as Wonka).

"A lot of people are huge fans of the [1971] movie and hold it in awe," director Burton told Entertainment Weekly. "I wasn't one of them."

Here are some points of interest from each version of the tale:

The book

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has sold more than 13 million copies. It was Dahl's second children's book, following James and the Giant Peach.

The Oompa-Loompas in the first edition were "a tribe of 3,000 amiable black pygmies," imported by Willy Wonka from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before." In 1973, Dahl bowed to his critics and changed the factory workers to dwarfish hippies with "rosy white" skin.

Charlie Bucket was also the protagonist of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, written by Dahl and published in 1973.

A Colorado public library removed the book from a locked storage cabinet in 1988, where it had sat for years because the librarian thought it taught children poor life lessons.

Other well-known children's books by Roald Dahl include The Witches, Matilda and Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes.

The 1971 movie

The original promotional "tagline" was "It's everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun!"

Lobby posters featured a generic but photographic-like illustration of Willy Wonka; it was not Gene Wilder, who played Wonka in the film. (This was a common practice in those days.)

The picture held up by the Paraguyan newscaster announcing the finder of the last golden ticket is of Nazi henchman Martin Bormann.

The film was made in Munich, Germany; immediately after the Wonka company left, the sets and locations were reused for the movie Cabaret.

The new movie

In the late 1970s, as part of a third-grade project, screenwriter John August (who also wrote Tim Burton's Big Fish) sent Dahl a fan letter. (The other kids all wrote to President Jimmy Carter.) Dahl sent the 10-year-old a personalized postcard.

Freddie Highmore (Charlie) was hand-picked by Johnny Depp after they'd co-starred in last year's Finding Neverland.

All 165 Oompa-Loompas are played by 4-foot-4 actor Deep Roy, whose actions and expressions were duplicated by computer.

For the chocolate river, 200,000 gallons of constantly flowing "chocolate" were created. It's a combination of water, dietary cellulose and food coloring.