Why are they remaking a perfectly good movie? This will likely flop just like the rest of the remakes.
Why did anyone do Hamlet after Sir Lawrence? After Booth? Those remakes didn't flop.
All of his comments suggest that Tim Burton and John August (the screenwriter) are following Dahl's book, whereas the first movie did not (it does not even use the same title). I enjoyed the first film adaptation of the novel (Dahl didn't), and I may enjoy the second. I won't dismiss it unseen, however.