# Willy Wonka disappointment has me thinking... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 6, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310 "2001-02-06T04:07:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/1 "2001-02-06T04:07:46Z")
Marilyn Manson will NOT be playing Willy Wonka in the remake of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” my morning paper tells me. I’m so disappointed. I love really bad remake casting. I’ll just have to watch my video of Lost Horizons (the musical) again. Or I could fantasise about other possible “bright ideas”. Like the remake of Brief Encounter with Sean Penn and Juliet Lewis. or Mary Tyler Moore as Velvet’s mother in National Velvet. Rules: Golden Age Movies with plausible contemporary (ie curently alive but not necessarily hot)stars Anyone else want to play? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/2 "2001-02-06T04:37:00Z")
_Dr. Strangelove_ with Jim Carrey in a triple role. ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/3 "2001-02-06T04:44:38Z")
Casablanca: with Jack Nicholson and Madonna. Guest starring “Puffy” Combs as Sam. Wizard of Oz: with the Pepsi Girl :eek: Gone With the Wind: with Nick Nolti and Joan Cusack Streetcar Named Desire: with Pee Wee Herman and Jennifer Tilly Double Indemnity: With William Hurt and Kathleen Turner 😛 Treasure of the Sierra Madre: With Kevin Cosner, Sylvester Stallone, and Arnold Shwarzeneger. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/4 "2001-02-06T04:55:28Z")
MM? That freak being Willy? I won’t go there. 😛 How about a PSYCHO remake? With Vince Vaughn, and- Oh. They’ve done that already. Then how about Psycho with…Pauly Shore and Katie Holmes. Always wanted to see her die. Or if not Pauly, Dana Carvey. (Don’t ask.) ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/5 "2001-02-06T07:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revedge \* > **Casablanca: with Jack Nicholson and Madonna. Guest starring “Puffy” Combs as Sam.** and John Candy in the Sydney Greenstreet role? and Pee Wee Herman as Peter Lorre? ---
**Author:** ![Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazing\_Tiki\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazing_Tiki_God)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/6 "2001-02-06T07:36:11Z")
I got one redo The Grapes of Wraith with the cast of In Living Color that would be one to see let me tell you ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/7 "2001-02-06T07:59:53Z")
Redo _The Running Man_ with Drew Carey as the star. Do _The Jack Johnson Story_ with Gary Coleman. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/8 "2001-02-06T10:57:50Z")
They should redo _Aladdin_ with Shaquille O’Neal as the genie. 😃 How about taking almost any John Wayne movie and replacing him with Jake Lloyd? ---
**Author:** ![Watermelon\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/22d042/32.png) [@Watermelon\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Watermelon_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/9 "2001-02-06T12:01:18Z")
The Good the Bad and the Ugly… featuring: Will Smith Woody Allen Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/10 "2001-02-06T13:15:55Z")
_The Exorcist_ with: [ul] [li] **The Pepsi Girl** :eek: as Reagan(sp?)[/li][li] **Calista Flockhart** as Chris (Reagan(sp?)'s Mom)[/li][li] **John Malkovich** as Father Karros[/li][li] **Harrison Ford** as Father Whats-His-Name, the old priest who helps out[/li][li] **Drew Carey** as the cop who investigates Berg’s murder[/li][li] **Woody Allen** as Berg[/li] [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/11 "2001-02-06T13:30:03Z")
Also, any movie ever made, with **Jessica Alba** as the female lead :D. MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/12 "2001-02-06T13:37:13Z")
Wilder’s “Some Like It Hot” With Ricki Lake, Ru Paul, and Dennis Rodman ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/13 "2001-02-06T14:01:49Z")
**Sparticus** - starring William Shatner and “Wierd” Al Yankovic ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2001, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonka-disappointment-has-me-thinking/53310/14 "2001-02-06T14:02:27Z")
**Redboss** : > [@](#): > > Like the remake of Brief Encounter with Sean Penn and Juliet Lewis. Or the remake of Brief Encounter, with Penn Jillette and Daniel-Day Lewis.