Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka, from Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, is by far one of the most memorable characters to ever cross the silver screen.
Sure, some actors have tried and are still trying to live up to his legacy, but, so far, none have managed to even come close to the performance that Wilder delivered all the way back in 1971.
Though it didn’t exactly have the best run in theaters, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory found new life when it reached TV and soon became as iconic as the classic children’s book on which it is based, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
However, what few fans of the movie know is just how close we came to not having this trippy kids’ film in our lives, at least not in the way that we have come to know it.
The…
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