If I may, I'd like to revive this old thread. I've had this idea in my head for quite some time and I can't wait to let it out! So, here it is...
Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Format: Hand-drawn animation/CGI--namely, this film will use the "Deep Canvas" technology used in
Tarzan, which allows two dimensional animated characters to interact with 3D environments.
Starring: Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder as Grandpa Joe
Plot: The plot of this movie would be similar to that of the 2013 stage musical adaptation (the film would be produced in association with Warner Bros.). I'll even put down YouTube links to the songs from the show in the appropriate place.
This film would serve as a way of bringing back the original Disney hand-drawn animation. In fact, this film would also serve to restore the "Walt Disney" in the Walt Disney Pictures logo.
I don't know about you guys, but I hate the fact that the suits changed the logo to just "Disney". It's like they don't even care about Walt's legacy.
Anyways, the film opens as we blaze through a snowstorm, finding ourselves in a great city. On the edge of the city is a dump. Here, we find little Charlie Bucket searching for valuables in a dump near his home. As he picks up candy wrappers, he speaks with a mysterious tramp, regarding his inventive habits ("Almost Nearly Perfect"), and heads home to his family, who live in a one-room shack underneath a railroad arch.
As he and his grandparents wait for their cabbage soup to boil, they tell Charlie stories about his idol, the mysterious candy-maker Willy Wonka. They tell him of his various revolutionary candy ideas, and how the world loved him. They even tell him about the time an Indian prince, Pondicherry by name, asked Willy to make a chocolate palace for his new wife. But, unfortunately, on a hot summer's day, the palace melted and the prince and princess drowned in the chocolate mess.
However, they tell him, Wonka's jealous rivals started sending in spies to steal his recipes, forcing him to close the factory. But then, a few weeks later, his factory started producing more candies...yet the gate remained closed!
Charlie's father soon returns, dispirited from a lack of work. Noticing the gloom surrounding his life, he pens "A Letter from Charlie Bucket" to Willy Wonka, folding it into a paper airplane and sending it out flying into the night.
The next morning, Mrs. Bucket returns home from her night job and reveals the headline on the latest newspaper: "WONKA FACTORY TO OPEN TO LUCKY FEW!" Willy Wonka is holding a competition where five lucky contestants must buy Wonka bars to find a Golden Ticket to his factory and a lifetime's supply of candy. Charlie is desperate to win one, but he has no money. On their homemade TV, they hear of the first Golden Ticket winner, an obese boy from Bavaria named Augustus Gloop.
They soon learn that another ticket has been found by a spoiled British girl named Veruca Salt. Mr. Salt recounts how he won the ticket for his daughter. Charlie's birthday arrives, and his grandparents give him a Wonka bar, but are disappointed when there is no Golden Ticket. As he eats, they hear of the discovery of the third Golden Ticket, in Hollywood by wannabe gum-chewing celebrity, Violet Beauregarde. She and her father brag about how they will now be even more famous because of the Golden Ticket and how Violet is going to be the "biggest" diva ever. Shortly after, the TV announces another Golden Ticket discovery, Mike Teavee and the Teavee family. Mike is a violent and obnoxious bully who is addicted to all sorts of media, and whose frantic mother spoils him rotten. It is revealed that Mike hacked into Wonka's system to get his Golden Ticket.
With all but one ticket gone and no money to buy a bar, Charlie is desolate. His parents sing about how they wish they could raise their son together and about how they hope for a better life ("If Your Mother Were Here").
A bitter storm soon comes, and the family faces starvation. After the storm passes, Charlie returns to the dump and finds some money dropped by a rich couple. Encouraged by the mysterious tramp, he buys a Wonka bar, and finds a Golden Ticket inside that prompts Grandpa Joe to get out of bed and walk for the first time in forty years ("Don't You Pinch Me, Charlie").
On the day they are to enter the factory, Charlie and Grandpa Joe feel out of place amidst all the hoopla on the red carpet. Finally, the moment of truth arrives. With a choral fanfare, the factory door swings open and all eyes to turn to see the mysterious Willy Wonka, invites the Golden Ticket winners into his factory to see all the wonders ("It Must Be Believed to Be Seen").
Wonka gathers the ticket winners and explains the rules and regulations of the factory ("Strike That, Reverse It").
With the contracts signed, Wonka then reveals the Chocolate Room, a wonderful garden of candy delights. As the children explore this sugary wonderland, the bewildered adults ask Wonka what its purpose is and Wonka bemusedly explains that is his artwork ("Simply Second Nature").
Veruca breaks the reverie with a scream as Augustus is drinking from the waterfall, into which he falls. As he is sucked up the chocolate extraction pipe, the families look up to see dozens of tiny workers in red boiler suits called Oompa-Loompas, who make no effort to try and save Augustus ("Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop").
With Augustus gone, Wonka is more concerned about the possible contamination of bones in his toffee. The party is shocked and mortified, but Wonka assures them that he'll be fine. The next room is the Inventing Room, where white coated Oompa-Loompas mix and stir. Wonka gives each child an Everlasting Gobstopper, but Violet is unimpressed. Wonka shows her his latest creation, chewing gum which includes an entire 3-Course Dinner. When Violet sees the gum, she pops it into her mouth. Wonka warns her to stop chewing before dessert, but Violet ignores him and begins to turn purple and swell up like a giant blueberry. ("Juicy!"). Violet explodes in a shower of purple blueberry goo and glitter, but Wonka is unconcerned, sending Mr. Beauregarde to the Juicing Room, assuring that it can get her back to normal.
Wonka next leads the party to the Nut Room, where squirrels sort out nuts to see if they are good or bad. The good nuts are kept for them to eat while the bad nuts are thrown away down a rubbish chute. Veruca demands a squirrel. When Wonka refuses, she takes matters into her own hands, rushing to grab one for herself, instead she is judged a “bad nut”, and she and her father are sent down the rubbish chute ("Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet"). Again, Wonka assures the remaining visitors that Veruca and her father will be all right.
Wonka leads the group through dark cellars, where all his mistakes are kept, finally arriving at a room he calls The Department of the Future. Wonka demonstrates Chocolate Television. Mike is intrigued and despite Wonka's protests, he puts himself before the cameras, presses the remote and disappears in a puff of smoke. Mike hops from screen to screen until they finally pull him out, leaving him at only 6-inches tall. ("Vidiots!"). Mrs. Teevee is relieved as she won’t have to worry about him causing big problems any more, and she places him in her purse and leaves the factory quite satisfied.
Charlie is the only child left. When Grandpa Joe asks about their lifetime supply of confectionery sweets, Mr. Wonka casually dismisses them saying that the Everlasting Gobstopper Charlie had got was the lifetime supply of candy. Grandpa Joe is angry, but Charlie defuses the situation saying that an Everlasting Gobstopper is still an amazing present.
Wonka takes Charlie and Grandpa Joe to the Imagining Room, where he creates all of his new ideas. All the room contains are white walls and a book...namely, Wonka's idea book. Wonka steps out to discuss legal matters (aka "grown-up stuff") with Grandpa Joe, advising Charlie not to touch the book. But Charlie does open it, and adds a few of his own to the blank pages in the back. Wonka silently returns, and seeing Charlie’s additions, he tells him he’s won, inviting Charlie into his Great Glass Elevator so that he can show him his prize, the chocolate factory. ("Pure Imagination"--the only song from
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory to be used here).
They return to Earth where Wonka announces he’s leaving, and that Charlie is now in charge. He disappears, but as the Bucket family moves into the factory, Charlie sees the mysterious tramp outside the gates, who is revealed as Willy Wonka. As the Oompa-Loompas and Charlie wave goodbye from the factory windows, Wonka vanishes, singing a reprise of "It Must Be Believed to Be Seen", leaving Charlie to ponder all of the adventures that are to come.
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And there we have it...my idea for Disney's
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Any thoughts?