Support NeoGAF

[AlStrong]

Good luck to whoever they want to play the role of Wonka.

jesse eisenberg

 

[Floex]

I know Warner have gone off the boil for a while now but this studio can't seem to get anything right. Time for a change of leader

 

[Sanjuro]

Keanu and Trinity can still go!!

Morpheus ? Uh, he can still sit in that chair...

They can pass the torch to Hemsworth and J-Law.

 

[Schlorgan]

Cinematic universes are terrible examples of long form story telling though. They could do it well but none of the ones I've seen have done it well at all. In fact it makes for weaker story telling in the movie itself as the knowledge a sequel or later property can fill in the blanks of flesh out a character or event means the current movie can skim over that.

I believe you're forgetting about the best cinematic universe:

Spoiler

 

[DMczaf]

About that bold part

Tell me a lie, Seph....

 

[MontyMarx]

WONKA BEGINS

THE DARK NERDS

THE GOBSTOPPER RISES

 

[zeemumu]

The Wonka Cinematic Universe

You joke but there is a sequel to that book, and it involves space travel.

 

[Sephzilla]

Tell me a lie, Seph....

Trinity is totally okay after the third movie.

Spoiler

This is a lie

 

[HStallion]

You joke but there is a sequel to that book, and it involves space travel.

That glass elevator was the shit. Too bad the book itself sucked.

 

[wesleyshark]

Ugh

 

[Sou Da]

This will go just as well as Oz the great and powerful.

 

[a916]

I believe you're forgetting about the best cinematic universe:

Spoiler

Poster clearly doesn't understand the importance of family.

 

[DMczaf]

Trinity is totally okay after the third movie.

Spoiler

This is a lie

She can still be alive in the Matrix!!!

 

[8bit]

 

[UncleSporky]

I remember there was actually a lot of Wonka back story in the books, especially the Great Glass Elevator. Something about the crazy stuff he saw and did in the jungle.

 

[Beer Monkey]

I guess it couldn't be worse than the Tim Burton one?

The Burton one is actually a far better, more faithful adaptation of the book than the original film, which Dahl despised.

Its biggest problem is simply that Gene Wilder was more fun to watch than Depp.

 

[Spaghetti]

*sccrppp* *sccrppppp*

That's the sound of the bottom of the barrel getting a good scrape.

 

[Rentahamster]

Is he gonna eat fish heads this time?

 

[HStallion]

The Burton one is actually a far better, more faithful adaptation of the book than the original film, which Dahl despised.

Its biggest problem is simply that Gene Wilder was more fun to watch than Depp.

Being faithful to the book does nothing when it was not a great adaptation in the first place. The music wasn't as well done, the visuals were a mess, and Depp was terrible in the roll though part of that falls on Burton as well.

 

[Sephzilla]

She can still be alive in the Matrix!!!

Force Matrix

 

[louiedog]

I hope it's not gritty and angry like their super hero output, or dark in the way the Jungle Book movie they're putting out in 2018 is supposedly.

That first movie was great because it was psychologically dark, but not in its presentation and it worked so well.

The Burton one is actually a far better, more faithful adaptation of the book than the original film, which Dahl despised.

Its biggest problem is simply that Gene Wilder was more fun to watch than Depp.

Faithful adaptation and enjoyable movie don't automatically go hand in hand. I was totally on board for that Depp movie as a huge Dahl fan when I was a kid, but I really hated watching it.

 

[Schlorgan]

Is he gonna eat fish heads this time?

They'll license the Doctor Demento song.

 

[bluehat9]

Can't wait for the oompa loompa standalone movie (that turns into a trilogy).

 

[dr_octagon]

Christoph Waltz

I would pay money to see this film if they get Waltz to say the following

'It was me Charlie, the author of all your pain (au chocolat)'

 

[Beer Monkey]

Depp was terrible in the roll though part of that falls on Burton as well.

 

[Schlorgan]

You win the thread.

 

[ElFly]

Fantastic flavors and where to find them

 

[Hale-XF11]

Stop.

 

[Obscura]

Please no.

If Dahl has unpublished Wonka material just release that instead.

 

[HStallion]

Fantastic Flavors and where to find them

We turning into Toriko?

 

[Camjo-Z]

People complain about the idea of "cinematic universe" but then completely ignore how well long form storytelling works in TV shows... for some reason having the word "cinematic universe" is some really weird negative connotation. TV isn't Film and vice versa, but long form story telling has a lot of strengths.

When I think "cinematic universe" I think of films that do things not because they'd make for a good movie, but because they're thinking of how they can convince people to go see to the next one, and the next one, and the next one. For example, this very reboot proposes the idea of other Willy Wonka characters appearing in a later film. Why wait for a sequel when people would obviously want to see them in this movie? Is Willy Wonka 2 going to have a post-credits teaser for the fucking Oompa Loompas? Will it all be leading up to the Great Glass Elevator crossover event where he travels through dimensions to meet up with the BFG and stop the Witches from taking over the world?

 

[NastyBook]

Well played.

 

[Xerotwo]

Didn't we already got a reboot not that long ago?

I don't think this is necessary.

 

[Wiseblade]

Stop it Hollywood

STOP IT

 

[Sephzilla]

A+

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Force Matrix

Neo is also "dead". Shit, they'll have the machines upload their minds or whatever in the Matrix. Bam! They're gods now.

 

[Indelible]

Can't be worse than the Johnny Depp Willy Wonka, one of the worst movies I saw in the theater.

 

[bananafactory]

Oh Warner Bros

 

[Pagusas]

The Butron one was one of the worst films I've ever seen in my life. And I'm a Burton fan! Anything to wash that filth away is welcome.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I really don't want this.

 

[SirRattleBalls]

Oh boy, Milking a 40 plus year old film as a franchise. It's really not needed, cant they just think of something original.

 

[jett]

WB is so fucking thirsty for another film franchise it's pathetic.

 

[HStallion]

The Butron one was one of the worst films I've ever seen in my life. And I'm a Burton fan! Anything to wash that filth away is welcome.

Try rinsing out the bad taste with his Alice in Wonderland movie.

 

[IsntChrisL]

Willy Wonka: Origins

 

[rhandino]

!!!

Would love a sequel to the Burton film but I can take this...

WB really is thirsty for some Cinematic Universe coins tho.

 

[Sephzilla]

Neo is also "dead". Shit, they'll have the machines upload their minds or whatever in the Matrix. Bam! They're gods now.

Doesn't the ending of Revolutions really strongly imply that Neo is alive still, though? When they show his body being carried off at the end in all of that Neo fire vision, it's lit up like a Christmas tree - which the whole movie was supposed to imply energy/life

 

[Ivan 3414]

6/10

Grow up; people have different opinions

Oh boy, Milking a 40 plus year old film as a franchise. It's really not needed, cant they just think of something original.

The book is over 50 years old and has a sequel; technically it already is a franchise

 

[PSqueak]

Looking forward to the Fantastic Mr Fox prequel.

BEFORE HE WAS FANTASTIC...

I'd go for more Fantastic Mr Fox, the stop motion movie is one of the funniest things ever.

 

[JesseZao]

Who would be interested in this? I couldn't get past the first few pages of the sequel when reading it to my kids. I have no faith in the extended Wonka universe.

 

[jmood88]

Come on now. Its like the Movie industry is has run out o f ideas with all these reboots and prequels to date.

I really wish that people would stop repeating this nonsense as if it's some new thing that no one has ever come up with. Not only is it wrong, Hollywood has been doing reboots as long as it has been around, but the response itself is as creative as the thing people are criticizing.