Gene Wilder in 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' in 1971. Silver Screen Collection/Getty But Dick added that he thinks Wilder, who died in 2016 at age 83 , did a better job than he would have.

There's no sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, even though Roald Dahl's book does have a follow-up. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was published in 1972, but it's never had a ...

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a much-beloved, yet traumatic rite of passage that many of us encountered at the right age to delight and terrify in equal measure.The film is based on the ...

Poor leaders hire Oompa Loompas, people who simply follow orders. There's only one free thinker in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, and it is Willy Wonka. The Oompa Loompas are assigned their very ...

Leon Bennett/Getty. Benjamin Berkowitz and Max Berkowitz attend Entertainment Weekly's Annual Comic-Con Bash at Float at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 27, 2024 in San Diego.