JENNIFER ANISTON - ANISTON AND PITT TO REVIVE THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

JENNIFER ANISTON and BRAD PITT are bringing a new version of ROALD DAHL'S classic novel CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY to movie screens.

The Hollywood couple will serve as producers of the WARNER BROS film through their company PLAN B - the newly formed partnership of Aniston, Pitt, BRAD GREY and MICHAEL SIEGEL, who manages the interests of the Dahl estate.

Meanwhile, PLANET OF THE APES director TIM BURTON is in talks to helm the production. Although the film-maker has yet to sign a deal, the Dahl estate has already approved Burton as the director they wanted most. In the next few days, he will meet with the family in London, where he's putting the finishing touches to the movie BIG FISH.

Signing Burton will cap a long campaign to get the film under way with the blessing of the Dahl estate, which was reluctant to make a deal because the author didn't like the first screen adaptation - 1971's GENE WILDER flick WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.