Editing Roald Dahl (section)

===Screenplays===
For a brief period in the 1960s, Dahl wrote screenplays. Two, the [[James Bond]] film ''[[You Only Live Twice (film)|You Only Live Twice]]'' and ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'', were adaptations of novels by Ian Fleming.<ref>{{cite news|title='Sean Connery? He never stood anyone a round': Roald Dahl's love-hate relationship with Hollywood|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/sean-connery-never-stood-anyone-round-roald-dahls-love-hate |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/sean-connery-never-stood-anyone-round-roald-dahls-love-hate |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|last=Collin|first=Robbie|date=18 February 2021|access-date=28 February 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/13/roald-dahl-great-writers-imagination-lacey ''Roald Dahl Day: my glimpse into the great writer's imagination''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811031857/https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/13/roald-dahl-great-writers-imagination-lacey |date=11 August 2016}}. ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 22 November 2014.</ref> Dahl also began adapting his own novel ''Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'', which was completed and rewritten by [[David Seltzer]] after Dahl failed to meet deadlines, and produced as the film ''[[Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory]]'' (1971). Dahl later disowned the film, saying he was "disappointed" because "he thought it placed too much emphasis on Willy Wonka and not enough on Charlie".<ref>Liz Buckingham, trustee for the Roald Dahl Museum, quoted in Tom Bishop: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4660873.stm ''Willy Wonka's Everlasting Film Plot''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108084528/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4660873.stm |date=8 November 2011}}, BBC News, July 2005.</ref> He was also "infuriated" by the deviations in the plot devised by David Seltzer in his draft of the screenplay. This resulted in his refusal for any more versions of the book to be made in his lifetime, as well as an adaptation for the sequel ''[[Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator]]''.<ref>Tom Bishop (July 2005) [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4660873.stm "Willy Wonka's Everlasting Film Plot"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111108084528/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4660873.stm |date=8 November 2011}}. [[BBC News]].</ref>

He wrote the script for a film that began filming but was abandoned, ''[[Death, Where is Thy Sting-a-ling-ling?]]''.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=5 September 1971|page=12|title=His fables for children give 'Mr Patricia Neal' edge in Dahl house|first=Gordon|last=Gould}}</ref>