Taika Waititi to Tackle 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' for Netflix - Example #8092 on how creatively bankrupt the entertainment industry is

[Dom Cruise]

I would like to know why Charlie and the great glass elevator has never been adapted

That's a really good question.

 

[Bread Fetishist]

I would like to know why Charlie and the great glass elevator has never been adapted

IIRC, Roald Dahl didn’t like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, so he forbade anyone from adapting The Great Glass Elevator.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I'm calling it now:

Willy Wonka will be played by Oprah Winfrey. (Or that chick who plays the Female Doctor Who.)
One of the prize-winning kids will have two Moms.
Mike TeeVee will be obsessed with smartphones and social media.
The Oompa-Loompas will not be a parody of Donald Trump, (too easy) however, Veruca Salt's father will be.
Charlie will be a black girl. With red hair.
The animation will either be a CalArts ugfest or a ripoff of Tim Burton's "stripey-goth" CG aesthetic.
The songs will be "updated" (meaning they'll be just as dated and hokey as the songs in that 1985 TV version of Alice in Wonderland where Sammy Davis Jr. plays the caterpillar.)

 

[anti SJW]

In the book they're African Pygmies or something like that so they're going to be white for sure.

In the book, they are taken in cages, by boat to London by Willy Wonka to work in the factory.
That was removed after the first printing.

No version is right unless they include it.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

In the book they're African Pygmies or something like that so they're going to be white for sure.

Or make them white kids painted blue like this

 

[Stab You in the Back]

I experience the same feelings every time a new remake is announced.

Except the boat never stops. It just keeps going, on and on and on.

Everyone's dunking on this announcement but Waititi does good work, I might check it out.

Waititi is on the precipice of becoming the next Tim Burton, but without Burton's body of work to fall back on.

 

[Lensherr]

I experience the same feelings every time a new remake is announced.

Except the boat never stops. It just keeps going, on and on and on.




Waititi is on the precipice of becoming the next Tim Burton, but without Burton's body of work to fall back on.

I get more of a Kiwi Wes Anderson vibe from his films personally.

 

[José Mourinho]

If they're adapting the book fine and if Waititi has a good track record of it , I'll still remain cautious about the announcement although the jokes about woke Willy Wonka are hilarious to imagine.

And hey, nothing can be worse than this:

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I dunno. The original Willy Wonka film was made in that strange time when psychedelic drug culture had filtered down into a kid-friendly version. When whimsy was king and every children's movie seemed bright and shiny and crazy. It was the same time period that H.R. Pufnstuf and Sid and Marty Croft reigned supreme. I really don't think there was, or will be, a better time to make a Willy Wonka movie. Tell me you don't feel chills when the characters enter that big room filled with the candy furniture and the river of chocolate and the song "Pure Imagination" fires up. When Gene Wilder starts singing, I feel just like a 7 year old again. There's absolutely zero cynicism in that movie.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Waititi is on the precipice of becoming the next Tim Burton, but without Burton's body of work to fall back on.

Tim Burton jumped the shark hard, which has always bummed me out.

But his run from Pee Wee's Big Adventure to Ed Wood (arguably Mars Attacks in my opinion) was brilliant and he can always be proud of that.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

Wa Titties feels like he's been coasting off of Ragnarok. As much as I enjoyed Jojo Rabbit it felt like it was working in spite of him, and anyone who wants praise for statements as lukewarm as "Hitler and Nazis are bad" is huffing their own farts.

 

[The Pink Panther]

There's absolutely zero cynicism in that movie.

But that nigga Grandpa Joe, he's fucking sick only until Charlie gets that Golden Ticket. That freeloader!

 

[Owlman]

Why two?

Also besides the Oompa-Loompas, what else is there to expand on?

 

[Judge Holden]

IIRC, Roald Dahl didn’t like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, so he forbade anyone from adapting The Great Glass Elevator.

Yeah, Roald Dahl was quite possibly the most hilariously miserable asshole in recent literary history. He hated the Wily Wonker movie because Gene Hackman was too soft and friendly, and he hated it so damn much he put it into his will that the books sequel can never ever be filmed. Puportedly he also stood outside his local cinema with a megaphone telling people not to watch the adaptation of his Witches book solely because it had a "too happy" ending for his taste since it did not have the child protagonist dying.

 

[AnOminous]

There's absolutely zero cynicism in that movie.

That's why Roald Dahl hated it so much.

He hated the Wily Wonker movie because Gene Hackman was too soft and friendly, and he hated it so damn much he put it into his will that the books sequel can never ever be filmed.

You mean Gene Wilder. Roald Dahl might have hated one with Gene Hackman less.

 

[Grand Omega]

I'm interested to see who might be directing Akira now, since Waititi has once again exhibited a sheer lack of interest in doing fuck all with it. All for the best, I guess.

 

[Scratch This Nut]

I'm interested to see who might be directing Akira now

Hopefully nobody.

 

[Sayon]

If they were really trying to push boundaries they should make Wonka a lady who really really adores boys. And I mean boys,

 

[Bread Fetishist]

Hopefully nobody.

Be careful what you wish for. As we saw with Wonder Park, they actually can make movies with no director.

 

[Dom Cruise]

That's why Roald Dahl hated it so much.



You mean Gene Wilder. Roald Dahl might have hated one with Gene Hackman less.

I've always found that phenomenon of authors disliking great film adaptations of their works odd, same deal with Stephen King and The Shining.

I'm interested to see who might be directing Akira now, since Waititi has once again exhibited a sheer lack of interest in doing fuck all with it. All for the best, I guess.

Akira is probably dead ever since the Ghost in The Shell movie flopped.

Anime, like steampunk, is something that the mainstream just never seems to respond well to in the rares times Hollywood uses them for inspiration, which I just don't understand why.

But in the case of anime adaptations it may be a mercy if Hollywood no longer bothers.