# Willy Wonka's Appearance in the new Tim Burton Film

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 29, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonkas-appearance-in-the-new-tim-burton-film/296777 "2005-03-29T15:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonkas-appearance-in-the-new-tim-burton-film/296777/81 "2005-05-01T21:38:28Z")

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I would really like to see Martin Short as Willy Wonka, but I’m going to give JD the benefit of the doubt since he did great works with Tim Burton/Danny Elfman before.

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/willy-wonkas-appearance-in-the-new-tim-burton-film/296777/82 "2005-05-01T21:49:40Z")

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I just wanted to add that I saw Gene Wilder on Conan the other night, and man, I did not realize how old he was. The way Conan was talking with him, it was like Wilder’s whole career was Willy Wonka and Young Frankenstein.

I just want to add that Depp is just creepy in those shots.

Oh, and if Burton is adhering as closely as possible to the book, does that mean the Oompa-Loompas are back to being pygmies?

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