Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[bonanzataz]

i'd like to see someone like christopher walken play wonka.

[Sal]

After seeing the original again, I think a Burton remake is necessary if the focus is on Willy Wonka, and less Chocolate Factory.  You know the scene where he introduces everybody to the main area where there are rivers of chocolate and all the plants are made out of candy?  Wilder starts to sing, while all the kids run out and have a blast with the place.  There's a moment where Wilder looks so infinitely sad sitting next to a piece of mushroom-looking candy, that I thought it was hands down the most touching and honest moment in the film.  His face said it all.  It was an instant, and then the film resumed with the usual kids-get-into-trouble fare.  But for that moment of time, this film could have gone into many cool places exploring Wonka's psyche.  I felt that in subsequent scenes, he was just hiding his sorrow with the magic of the place, hoping to convince a kid of its magic and find its future owner.  And for some reason, I felt that still wasn't enough.  There had to be more to his sorrow than just finding a kid with an innocent mind to replace him as the new owner.  And in the end, when you discover there's not, well.  It brings the whole thing down.  Wilder's performance was outstanding.  And from that ending, I can only decide that the moment in the candy factory, sitting next to the mushroom, was a fluke.  If Burton knows what this movie is missing, I'd gladly see his remake.  The real trouble is finding someone as good as Wilder for Wonka.  Biggest casting decision he'll probably make.

[modage]

yeah with tim burton doing it, i'd be interested in just about anything.  i would however like to point out, that the interest level for this topic has swirled above that of the third lord of the rings installment, which is very funny to me for some reason.  its strange what people want to talk about isnt it?

[jokerspath]

They should have Wilder as Wonka again...

aw

[Pwaybloe]

He'll have a cameo, no doubt.  

I think everyone is missing the point.  Don't you think Burton has done enough remakes?  This will be his third.  

Sal made some good points about what he would like, but is it really necessary to make another movie about it?  What's wrong with the original?  

Let's just hope that a producer came to Burton with this project, and not the other way around.

[Duck Sauce]

I think everyone is missing the point.  Don't you think Burton has done enough remakes?  This will be his third.  

Hes got to compete with Mark Wahlberg

Let's just hope that a producer came to Burton with this project, and not the other way around.

If its going to get made Id rather have Burton be the one who wanted to do it first, he'd be more passionate about it it seems.

[MacGuffin]

i'd like to see someone like christopher walken play wonka.

Judging from the casting buzz being overheard by Cinescape and Dark Horizons, it looks like the search is well underway to find the new Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's remake of CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

According to one of our scoopers, Christopher Walken (CATCH ME IF YOU CAN) is one of the leaders emerging from the acting talent pool. It wouldn't be the first time Walken's worked with Burton; the actor played the part of scheming industrialist Max Schreck in BATMAN RETURNS.

But here's where it gets stranger: yesterday Dark Horizons ran a rumor that Walken's adversary in BATMAN RETURNS, namely Michael Keaton himself, is also being considered for the role of the candy tycoon.

[Gold Trumpet]

I'd watch the film with pleasure if Walken played Wonka. It could be a bad movie and everything, but the idea of Walken playing Wonka would be great.

~rougerum

[chainsmoking insomniac]

Now that's a dilemma...Walken or Keaton?  They'd both be equally perfect, though each would give the movie a very different feel...with Keaton, the film would be a little less dark, a little more upbeat...and with Walken, well shit, that'd just be a weird (but no less excellent) version.

[Sal]

There are supposed "sketches" of some concept designs for the Wonka movie at www.mukpuddy.com.

[Victor]

Christopher Walken

would rule.

Michael Keaton

would suckkkkkkkkkk...

[RegularKarate]

Walken would be pretty creepy.

Pawblow said: Don't you think Burton has done enough remakes? This will be his third

Wait... Planet of the apes and what else?

[Sleuth]

Off the top of my head...Bicycle Thief/PWBig Adv?

Oh God, I would definitely see the Wonka remake if it had Christopher Walken

[picolas]

Planet of the apes and what else?

i believe that was a RE-IMAGINING.

[oakmanc234]

I would loooooooove Michael Keaton to do the Wonka in a Tim Burton remake. I think I'd just love a recollabo with them period.