1A 10-year-old girl came up with the idea to turn the book into a movie. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory director Mel Stuart had previously specialized in documentaries. It was his daughter ...

Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory famously ends with Willy Wonka gifting Charlie his ... The Unknown, of course, does not appear in Dahl’s book, or any of the film adaptations.