Everyone’s favourite unhinged child killing confectioner, with slave labour workers shipped in from overseas, could be making a return to the big screen.
Heat Vision have reported that Paddington director Paul King is in final negotiations to direct Willy Wonka for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was much loved by me growing up. Gene Wilder’s portrayal in the 1970’s version will be hard to beat. Johnny Depp, with his off-kilter Michael Jackson impression and endless Tim Burton Dutch angles from 13 years ago, doesn’t come close.
There is a sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, which has never been filmed.
Simon Rich wrote the new script and David Heyman, producer behind many Harry Potter movies, run that side of things.
