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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:47 PM
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Poll question: Who should play Willy Wonka in the new movie?
Tim Burton is working on a new Willy Wonka movie. Below I have enclosed all the names of some of the actors mentioned as possibilities for the part, as well as a few "wild cards" I have thrown in.
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Norbert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:52 PM
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1. Gene Wilder
Hell, he probably isn't that much older than Akroyd.
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CSI Willows Donating Member (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:13 PM
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6. I agree
Very true
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SyracuseDemocrat Donating Member (696 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:44 PM
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14. Gene wilder
Edited on Sun Aug-03-03 09:45 PM by SyracuseDemocrat
is 70 years old. He's too old, imo. Aykroyd is early 50s.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:59 AM
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42. why is he too old?
Wonka is looking for someone to take over when he dies!
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:53 PM
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Hey! You missed the early frontrunner...
Marilyn Manson... Not my choice, but has been mentioned.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:53 PM
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2. Nathan Lane
*
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:54 PM
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3. Chris Rock!
Now I'd pay to see that.

Maybe Dave Chapelle?
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 08:55 PM
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4. None of the above...
I vote for Joe Lieberman :) I've always envisioned Willy Wonka to look like him, and a job in acting would keep him out of politics.
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:19 PM
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7. LOL
And Joe wouldn't need to get a haircut, he's already got the Wonka hair.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:26 PM
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9. With Trent Lott as Slugworth
A battle of the hairs!
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MoonGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:49 AM
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41. Umm.. no...
... Joe Lieberman is more of an oompa loompa.

Or whatever they were called.

Of prez candidates, I think DK or Sharpton are most suited to the role of Willy Wonka, although none really fit.

Seeing John Edwards playing Willy Wonka would be amusing. He would make for such an earnest Willy. :)
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:07 PM
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5. Mike Meyers...
I think he would be hilarious!!!
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iluvchicago86 Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 07:27 PM
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35. YES!
OMG! this thread struck a chord in my heart when I saw who the choices were, because each and every one of them would be like a slap in the face to all children and adults who love the original movie everywhere including me! Plus it would just pale in comparison to the astronomically outstanding job that Gene Wilder did in the original. But Mike Meyers..well ma'am...i think you just may be onto something!
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bocadem Donating Member (345 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:20 PM
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8. Gene Wilder
But... after seeing Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, I think he might be good in any role!
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:29 PM
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10. Andy Dick
he needs work.

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oustemnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 11:37 PM
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38. that's an inspired suggestion.
I could actually see that working.
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MoonGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 03:01 AM
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43. Me, too
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:32 PM
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11. Ideas for Grandpa Joe?
be realistic.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:40 PM
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12. Sean Connery...
realistically.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:57 PM
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16. Heston all the way. n/t
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:43 PM
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13. Tom Arnold or Brendan Fraser
No... forget Tom Arnold... Brendan's the one.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 09:53 PM
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15. Walken is the obvious choice
He's weird enough for Burton, and does a dance in every movie he's in.
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incontrovertible Donating Member (643 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 10:35 PM
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17. Walken
Although he just turned SIXTY!!! Walken is the perfect combination of creepy and cool.

Depp is exquisite, but I've not seen him sing/dance. I'm so damn happy Pirates worked out well for him, because that was such a precious performance - he really should get an Oscar nomination, even though there's no chance he would win; the work's that extrordinary.

I've long wished I had become a successful screenwriter so I could adapt "Man Out Of Time," the biography of Nikolai Tesla (the man who invented, um, the entire damn modern world, really, only to be forgotten, after the government seized all of the papers he wrote in the last years of his life, in order to protect oil companies and military capability). That's my dream role for Depp - Tesla's "inventions" came to him like mental intrusions from another planet. One day he's walking through Central Park with an assistant, and he goes into a near epilpetic seizure, demandng his assistant get him a stick. He then carves the first diagram for an alternating current generator into the dirt, and says plainly, "this will change the world."

Anyway, I vote Walken.
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gyopsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-03-03 10:58 PM
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18. I voted Walken...
but I don't think anybody could do the same job Wilder did thirty or so years ago. Mike Myers might be pretty good too.
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 01:25 AM
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19. kick
:kick:
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 01:27 AM
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20. Walken was great in Joe Dirt
And he would be a great Willie Wonka...

Maybe my wife would buy the new movie and I wouldn't have to watch the old one anymore. Here's to hoping....

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DeathvadeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 03:13 AM
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21. Saddam....
would be awsome!!!
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 03:16 AM
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22. I vote for.....................................
George W Bush as a oopa loopa
Karl Rove as Willy Wonka
Me as fat kid 1
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 04:09 PM
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23. I can't believe Walken is winning
I voted for Bill Murray.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 04:50 PM
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24. Yahoo Serious...
Nah... Kidding.

Definitely Walken!!!
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tjdee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 04:53 PM
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25. *not Jim Carrey, not Jim Carrey, not Jim Carrey*
Edited on Mon Aug-04-03 04:54 PM by tjdee
I don't care, as long as it's not Jim Carrey, LOL.

More of Hollywood dragging the bottom of the barrel...not an original thought out there worth taking a chance on, huh studios?
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 05:26 PM
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30. LOL! Get out of my head!!
I swear, I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING.

Cat
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 05:01 PM
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26. Depp, Walken, Keaton
Any of those would be fine by me, I can't choose one. Will leave it to Tim Burton's good judgement :)

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DrWeird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 05:17 PM
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27. How 'bout Jack Black?
I sure could see him running a chocolate factory.
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 05:22 PM
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28. None of the above
If you've read the book, you'll probably agree with me that it's quite a different type of actor who suits the Willy Wonka role.

Besides, let a much older actor have a chance at this. Hume Cronyn's gone. Sean Connery's the wrong type. Wilford Brimley's the wrong type. Perhaps Ian Holm, if he feels like it and has the shooting schedule open...
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 05:24 PM
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29. Have no idea CW or JD
Christopher Walken perhaps. Johnny Depp could do it, but I don't know. He is a rather young-looking 40 yo. :crazy:
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thermodynamic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 05:51 PM
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31. None, stop remaking old movies and do something original for pity's sake!!
:eyes:

What's wrong with the originals?
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:25 PM
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32. Ice-T
A different kind of Wonka.
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DrBB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 06:30 PM
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33. Nope. Willem DaFoe or Anthony Hopkins
I personally lean toward Hopkins. With just the teensiest, most tasteful little drop of human blood on his shirt.

Never could stand Willy Wonka.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 07:11 PM
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34. Would you like an Everlasting Gobstopper, Clarice?
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 07:31 PM
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36. Tee Hee
Isn't that from the porn version?
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elcondor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-03 10:43 PM
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37. I can't picture anyone but Gene Wilder but
the thought of Walken doing Wonka makes me giggle! :D
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 01:15 AM
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39. ....his skit's 'n' bit's and silly make'm ups....people seem to like it...
....LOL from the SNL 25th Anniversary Show...he was always side split'n hilarious every time he hosted...I could see him doin' this role..especially the warped way Burton's mind works...that would be a TRIP indeedy! :D
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JackSwift Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:42 AM
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40. Charles Nelson Reilly
Oh yeah. Maybe Clint Eastwood. Brittany Spears. Ashton Kutcher.
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