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Here's Gail Simone's Pitch for a Willy Wonka Movie

Published Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:45:38 -0600

Sometimes Twitter is a wonderful place, thanks to personalities like Gail Simone.

Here's Gail Simone's Pitch for a Willy Wonka Movie — Photo by Kendall Whitehouse

Today, the comic book writer took to her characters to describe her pitch for a film: The Oz/Wonka war.

Okay, here's my idea.

THE OZ/WONKA WAR.

— Gail Simone (@GailSimone) November 30, 2018

Slugworth allies with the Wicked Witch of the West to capture Dorothy and Charlie.

The Oompa-Loompa and Munchin armies are forced to face flying monkeys armed with inferior chocolate.

Wonka and the Wizard must find a new child to save both empires.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) November 30, 2018

And we find out that Grampa Joe is the Wizard's brother, they used to tour together in a travelling medicine show.

Augustus Gloop and the Cowardly Lion are the generals fighting the living tree invasion.

— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) November 30, 2018

But then, someone warned Gail that perhaps we'd see Johnny Depp return to the character:

Stop it, you'll give Disney ideas and we'll have to see another overstuffed CG nightmare starring Johnny Depp.

— Hare Beware (@Seito_Akai) November 30, 2018

Prompting this response from Simone:

Johnny Depp does appear in the film, hitting on a grown Violet Beauregard, who fights as the terrifying BLUEBERRY DEVIL and she juices him on camera until there's nothing left but cigarettes and despair. https://t.co/Vry51GE2Zc

— Gail Simone (@GailSimone) November 30, 2018

We adore this plan.

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