Sam Mendes: life is sweet
Sam Mendes on making Bond, coming home and turning Charlie And The Chocolate Factory into a musicalCharlie and the Chocolate Factory has taken five years to become a stage musical, for reasons logistical " Sam Mendes, the director, was out for three of them doing Skyfall " and practical: the book is a tricky one to adapt. There are the kids; the old folks in bed; the pyrotechnics of the chocolate factory. There is th…