Willy Wonka

[dreamsofsea]

Is it true that they are going to remake this movie?

[FlickJunkie]

They are supposedly going to make a remake, it's in development and this one takes the name of the book which is "CHARLIE and the Chocolate Factory". Rob Minkoff, who directed the cute (and entertaining) Stuart Little (7/10) and the upcoming Stuart Little 2, is set to direct the film.

This one wont be a musical and although both movies are obviously based on the same book. This film is going to be more faithful to the original book than "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" was...

[dreamsofsea]

Thank you. I was wondering because they are selling candy bars that I guess are like the ones from the Gene Wilders version.

[Dumb-Fokker-**]

This movie should be cool. I liked the origianl, and I liked the book better than the movie, so it should be pretty good. I dont know about the director thogh; I always pictured Willy Wonka as a kind of, dark story.

[Ender]

It's been a pretty long time since I heard anything on this movie. Exactly how far along is the project?

[SubMethod]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dumb-Fokker-**:
This movie should be cool. I liked the origianl, and I liked the book better than the movie, so it should be pretty good. I dont know about the director thogh; I always pictured Willy Wonka as a kind of, dark story. </font>

I would love to see a darker version of this story on film. I think it could be great as a PG-13 or maybe R movie. I always thought of it as a dark story myself too.

[dreamsofsea]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SubMethod:
I would love to see a darker version of this story on film. I think it could be great as a PG-13 or maybe R movie. I always thought of it as a dark story myself too.

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I am always so clueless. Why would you think the movie is dark?

[Nate6]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by dreamsofsea:
I am always so clueless. Why would you think the movie is dark?</font>

I think he meant that the book was dark, and that the movie should be too. I agree. In the book, all these horrible things happen to the bad kids, and the whole factory is like one big weird world.

[ColinM]

Really? Very interesting. I've never read the book, could you guys who did tell me some of the horrible things that happened to the kids and how the factory was such a wierd place?

[dreamsofsea]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ColinM:
Really? Very interesting. I've never read the book, could you guys who did tell me some of the horrible things that happened to the kids and how the factory was such a wierd place?</font>

Thank you for asking this question. I did not want to appear to morbid.

[Nate6]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ColinM:
Really? Very interesting. I've never read the book, could you guys who did tell me some of the horrible things that happened to the kids and how the factory was such a wierd place?</font>

Well, respectively, the bad kids were: sucked into a big tube and perhaps thrown into an oven, expanded like a blueberry and taken to be popped, fallen down a chute, perhaps into a furnace, and shrunken to microscopic size, taken to be stretched back to normal. Plus there were all the machines, Oompa-Loompas, scary tunnel rides, etc. that make it a weird place. This is what I can remember, it's been a few years since I've read the book. The SECOND book, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, isn't even half as good as the original. Hopefully a new film will introduce the wonderful world of Roald Dahl to a whole new generation.

[Sergei]

Willy Wonka?!! Was that a kids movie to begin with? It scared the hell out of me! Please do not waste time and money on this film. Never liked it, never will. Unless your drunk out of your mind perhaps.

[herculeez]

Does anyone have any idea as to whom will play Charlie and whom will play Willy Wonka?
It's in development, but how far in the makings?
Any rumours of certain casting?
I advise...
Billy Crystal as Willy Wonka
Eric Bana as Charlie

That would throw a severly surreal outlook on the film, as well as making it dark.

[Dumb-Fokker-**]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a very simple run on freedom of choice, and judgement of heaven and hell, and good and evil. .....you know what I mean. The themes are what make it so dark, and I think it would just be perfect as a sort-of, horror movie, but in a beautiful chocolate factory. Good shit.

[SubMethod]

If they were going to make it dark and horror like, I think Marylin Manson would make a perfect Willy Wonka. I dont know just a thought.

[Nate6]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SubMethod:
If they were going to make it dark and horror like, I think Marylin Manson would make a perfect Willy Wonka. I dont know just a thought.</font>


It was rumored a little while ago that Marilyn Manson would play him. But it's totally not true, he doesn't want the role and the producers don't want him in the role. LOL they want the movie to at least make some money.

[Cyclonus]

Hehe, I don't think Dahl ever intended it to be that dark. Manson as Willy Wonka? I don't think so!

[Fergus]

I don't want them to remake that movie. And these rumors have been around for a long time anyway and I believe were silenced. It would probably turn out bad anyway.

Has anyone ever read the sequel to "Chocolate Factory" called "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator". I would love to see that turned into a movie. The book was just as whacked or more whacked as its predecessor.

[Santa Claus]

To bad Marilyn Manson does not want to play Willy Wonka. Because if he did, he could do the music for it too. And just picture how great the soundtrack would be!
He could make a heavy metal version of all the old songs from the first movie. Just picture it.

I say just get Gene Wilder to play Willy Wonka again if Manson does not want to do it. He is a good actor, and I have always liked him a lot. There is only one Willy Wonka, and Gene Wilder is him!

[Chilly721]

Actually, Santa Claus, Manson has already done some music from Willy Wonka. If you pick up the album "Portrait of an American Family," one of the tracks is his version of the song Wonka sings during the tunnel ride.