Imagine they make it like the Joker and it's dark and edgy. The oompa loompas will probably be cannibals.
The Fire Cat was a book I liked and kids seem to enjoy. It's about a cat in a firehouse, not a furry's OC, I promise.
My dad read the Geronimo Stilton books to us when we were in elementary, and they have lots of pictures and fun font changes on certain words so it should still be good for when they're that young. Although if you're already reading full on Dahl to them then it might be beneath them lol.
I don't know enough about Dahl, was that satire of how exploitative the practice of making chocolate was (and still is)? Or was he just a racist?
The only mystery is what kept his richly rewarded heirs quiet for so long
Such mystery, the world may never know
Capitalism encourages innovation
Capitalism encourages innovation
Capitalism encourages innovation
He built the factory using inherited wealth from his family's gobstopper mine in South Africa there.
Want to know how I got this chocolate factory? Well, I'm the Wonka, baby
What do you get when you steal an everlasting gobstopper from my factory? YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!
Oh no it's real - I just thought it was a bit because I saw a tweet earlier. Fuck this hell-existence.
As the empire nears the end of it's lifespan, it's ability to perceive a future vanishes, and it instead looks ever backward into an eternal past. Time dilation on a massive scale- we all live in it's dying brain.
Didn't this movie already happen?
Basically. In the Depp remake they had a whole bunch of flashback backstories, like when he was a kid and Christopher Lee was he controlling dentist father or when he offered the Oompa Loompas "salvation" from their savage jungle home.
And they definitely were not the best parts of a movie that was already not good.
Because we absolutely COULD NOT go on any longer without knowing what Willy Wonka's origin story is.
Ffs the backstory in the Johnny Depp version was perfectly fine and needed no expansion
What was bad about it? It's been years since I saw the movie but I remember it being serviceable. Classic rebellious childhood story and Christopher Lee was cool. Nothing groundbreaking, but interesting to see Wonka's childish nature through the lens of arrested development.
That's fair. I do think that the remake was more concerned with humanizing and filling him out rather than keeping him mysterious and the like, and his backstory fits with that approach. But yeah, if the goal is to keep him as an utterly strange dude then no backstory is better.
There's no way this can go well. That part with the oompa lumpas is extremely racist, how can you make the movie without showing Wonka to be a slave owning bastard
Maybe you go all in on it and it's a story about reparations and the experience of slave labor in cacao harvesting
With planet of the apes, this might be another franchise that not only doesn't need a backstory, but having one will actually be detrimental to the storyline.
