Roald Dahl was not keen on adaptations. He roundly dismissed the now beloved 1972 film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as “saccharine, sappy and sentimental”, and reckoned Spike Milligan would have been a better Wonka than Gene Wilder. He’d certainly have made a madder one.
Roald Dahl loathed the 1971 film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. But the notoriously dyspeptic author hated a lot of things. And according to critic Brian Viner, 2023’s Wonka would've been one of them.