Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[Squire James]

Well, Peter Jackson has demonstrated that using normal-sized people can work in such a production... I see lots of obese actors who will finally find work (note that denigrating fat people is still politically correct, so no problems there)!

 

[Mark]

I wonder how Jonathan Lipnicki will do (as Charlie) with Burton's reworked lyrics of I've got a Golden Shower...

 

[WanderingMonster]

Yes it is true, Tim Burton is doing the remake.

His personal actor Johnn Depp is playing Wonka.

FWIW Tim Burton is not a fan of the original film.

Hopefully he understands that Wonka is in fact an evil embodiment of temptation & handles the script accordingly.

I loved that movie, although I'd like to see what disturbing vision Burton has for this disturbing tale.

If he wanted to make a modern movie about a recluse who lives in a fantasy world and tempts children into indulging with him in assorted vices, then he needs Michael Jackson for Wonka. Period.

 

[Aeolius]

Personally, I would rather see Tim Burton hard at work on a sequel to the two Phibes films; The Abominable Dr Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again. There was supposed to be a third installment, known as either "Bride of Phibes" or "Phibes Resurrectus", tentatively pitting Anton Phibes against Hitler, but Vincent Price didn't like the screenplay. Burton is a fan of Vincent Price, so it would be interesting to see his take on a sequel, albeit without Price.

On a side note relating to children's movies - the soundtrack to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was recently released on CD.

 

[s/LaSH]

Hm. Interesting. I wonder if there'll be a stark, leafless tree with creepy branches somewhere in this film? Because I'm not sure I've seen any Burton without a stark, leafless tree.

I also wonder if the vermnicious knids will make more than a cameo appearance. (They were mentioned in the original film, right? I can't quite remember.) If not, well, why aren't they filming the book's sequel? The one where they go into space and fight (or flee) flesh-eating aliens.

The threquel can be the 20 years on story... (And I'm sure Dahl would have no problems with such a repulsive storyline. The man wrote proper fairy stories.)

can you imagine how screwed up that movie will be.

You mean they'll have psychotropic orange midgets who... waitaminute.

 

[robaustin]

There were rumors flying around before Tim Burton was attached that Ron Howard wanted to direct a re-imagining of the movie from the point of view of the oompa-loompas....

I do really like the movie as it is. It is a LITTLE dated, but it is still set in this rather fantasy-world. But I do enjoy most of Burton's films so I'll hold off judgement till I see the finsihed product.

I thought Burton did a nice job with his adaptation of Roald Dahl's other masterpiece - James and the Giant Peach - which was one of my all-time favorite books as a child.

I'd also recommend reading Roald Dahl's adult books - they are quite intriguing and cynical in that "British Monty-Python" sort of way - in fact you can see Dahl's influence in the Harry Potter books for sure...

--*Rob

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Roald Dahl rocks. In the Wonka movie, that old man who recites the rhyme about the little men scared my less as a kid. I liked James and the Giant Peach, too. No idea it was done by Tim Burton, that's cool.

 

[Cougar]

I heard that the Author of the book its based on did not like the original film either. Changed too much. I heard Tim Burton's will be closer to the book. I never read book, so I can't compare them.

Actually Roald Dahl wrote both the screenplay AND the book. Can't say if he did or didn't like the direction Gene Wilder and the director went though.

 

[2d6]

I loved the original film as a child and I still like it today. I'm kind of afraid of what Burton's version will look like.

Just one more example of Hollywood raping my childhood

 

[Derulbaskul]

*yoink for my next horror game*

Yoink for my Grimm game....