{"id":39396,"date":"2016-10-19T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=39396"},"modified":"2016-10-19T21:12:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T01:12:44","slug":"willy-wonka-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/19\/willy-wonka-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Brothers Developing WILLY WONKA Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/willy-wonka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/willy-wonka-678x339.jpg\" alt=\"willy-wonka\" width=\"678\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/willy-wonka.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/willy-wonka-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warner Brothers is looking to make a prequel to Roald Dahl novels about the fantastical chocolate factory owner Willy Wonka which served as the source the 1971 classic film <strong>Willy Wonka &amp; The Chocolate Factory<\/strong> starring Gene Wilder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/news\/willy-wonka-new-movie-david-heyman-warner-bros-1201894143\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a> is reporting that the studio has purchased the rights to the character from the Dahl Estate and have picked <strong>Harry Potter<\/strong> franchise producer David Heyman to oversee the development of a film that &#8220;will not be an origin tale, but a standalone movie focused on Wonka and his early adventures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Secret Life Of Pets<\/strong> screenwriter Simon Rich will be penning the script. There is no word if any other character from Dahl&#8217;s 1964 <em>Charlie And The Chocolate Factory<\/em> novel or its 1972 sequel, <em>Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator<\/em> will figure in the new film. No director has been attached to the project.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time that a Willy Wonka prequel has been mooted around Hollywood. In 2014, screenwriter Jason Micallef, writer of the 2011 dark comedy <strong>Butter<\/strong>, made it onto the annual Black List of best unproduced screenplays currently circulating through the industry for a take on the idea simply titled <strong>Wonka<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The studio hopes to tell the early adventures of the famous chocolate factory owner.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/19\/willy-wonka-prequel\/\" title=\"Warner Brothers Developing WILLY WONKA Prequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[8573,8574],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-heyman","9":"tag-willy-wonka"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39396"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=39396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}