The Great Glass Elevator

CartoonViolence RemoveThis @hotmail.com (CartoonViolence) wrote in message news:<a9f15a60.0309051321.143e9c43 RemoveThis @posting.google.com>...
> I recently found out that Tim Burton may actually direct the remake of
> "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".

I hate to be this nitpicky, but there has never been a movie called
_Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_. The movie _Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory_ was an adaptation of Roald Dahl's book called
_Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_. And, if even people posting in
this newsgroup are holding the movie _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory_ as "the original version", I dread how this is going to go
over with the general public.

>I've been saying that he should
> be that one to do it for over eight years now. When I first found out
> that a remake was in concideration the orriginal director that was to
> do the project was just making me sick with his ideas. I remember him
> saying that he was considering geting Will Smith to redo the oompaluma
> songs. The idea of Nicolas Cage as Willy Wonka wasn't such a bad idea
> though; he has a sick dark calmness to alot of his characters.

That idea strikes me as being completely based on Gene Wilder's
performance, which I believe should be forgotten, and make way for a
new interpretation of the character ... which I have faith that Burton
would do.

When I read the book, I personally saw Wonka as an askew old man, not
the handsome gentleman Wilder played him as.

It occurred to me today how perfect Christopher Lloyd would be for the
role. I have no idea how he and Burton would work together, though.
As Tim is picky about only working with just the right people, then
I'd think that if Lloyd were to suit him, he would have used him by
now.

> anyway my point here is: Tim Burton is definately the guy for the
> job of remaking "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Although the
> first one was already amazing!

About as amazing as an episode of _The Banana Splits and Friends
Show_.

In the '70's movie, everything before entering the chocolate factory
is done alright. After that, the aesthetic was all wrong.

>I suggest that Tim Burton either make
> a sequel to the first one going by the second book "The Great Glass
> Elevator" or go ahead and make the remake and then make "The Great
> Glass Elevator". I don't know about everyone else but I've always
> wanted to see the second book make into a movie even more than I've
> wanted to see the first one moderized. (although I'm a huge fan of
> Burton's work, and know that his remake of c&tcf would be GREAT!!!

_Great Glass Elevator_ is absolutely Burton material (the visit to
Hell!), and I'd love to see him take it on.

Ryan
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