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Wrong on so many levels.
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You mean Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator?.....I'd be okay with that.
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Do you not remember what happens in that one???
The boat scene was bad enough. I don't want to think about they would've done with those aliens and the Rapid Youthing.
edited 16th Jan '12 9:17:01 PM by Mort08
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I beg to differ. More movies like that need some High Octane Nightmare Fuel.
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....And your point is? What, are you afraid the effects will be terribly cheesy? or that the scenes would be too scary for children? You seem to be forgetting this is the film that brought us this:
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Exactly! Look at what they did with the boat sequence, the freaky elements of the second book could very well have been just as horrifying to watch!
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On the one hand, Charlie and the Glass Elevator was an awesome book.
On the other hand, those aliens were damn terrifying, if memory serves. Though, granted, that might be because it's possibly the most suspenseful sequence Dahl ever put in one of his children's books (his horror stuff, on the other hand...). Not that that would've stopped me from loving the movie, far from it.
I might've liked to see Gene Wilder as Wonka in a sequel, but I still love what we got.
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edited 16th Jan '12 10:53:48 PM by LDragon2
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I imagine it would have had a bigger budget, for one. Two, expect lots of stop-motion animation.
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I'm always fascinated by stop motion and live action mixed together when it's done well, like Ray Harryhausen. I think I read the Great Glass Elevator, or at least part of it, years ago. (Before the 2005 movie) Roald Dahl is a master of nightmare fuel though. 
The Great Glass Elevator is much cooler than the first book, if lacking in any kind of coherent narrative. I would totally watch a film of it.
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I don't think "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" was a good book, and I love Roald Dahl's works. There was a whole lot of pointless meandering with little payoff.
The end of the original book was perfect. "Anything to eat? Oh, you just wait and see!", everything's going to be great for Charlie and his family from now on. There was no need to add on to that.
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I’m almost certain Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was demanded by the publisher (Knopf, IIRC) to capitalize on the huge success of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
I haven’t read it since I was a child but the story just didn’t stick with me the way the original did. I remember the aliens and Georgina de-aging but that’s about it. In retrospect it just smacks of Contractual Obligation.
edited 9th Feb '12 6:35:26 PM by Bananaquit
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I was thinking about this...what if in the 1970s, Roland Dahl let the filmmakers make a sequel to "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory" based on the sequel to the original book? What do you think that would be like?