Least promising Sequel/Remake/Franchise Flick of 2020

Hopefully this sets the stage for more prequels about famous fictional buildings. Film audiences are hungry for effortlessness!

haha yeah, the whole movie is just gonna be wonka meeting with city officials to get the permits.

"ok, so the building will be 5-square miles in area, 500 feet tall, and will go even further underground. also, there will be a nightmare cave."

climax scene is inspectors telling Wonka his buildings aren't up to code as they're made up entirely of food.

and Wonka killing them

Oh, lol, I overlooked the word 'owner' in that tweet. But let's just keep pretending that it's about the factory, that's fun.

And anyway, wasn't Burton's remake already a goddamn Wonka origin story? Chrrrrrist, just fucking try for once, Hollywood.

There's racist stuff in the book about him going to a foreign country to get oompa loompa slaves.

Not clicking that link. So, who is the person in the photo? Looks like a third Edgerton brother created from the toenail clippings and bodily wastes of the other two...

Netflix is currently working on its own Wonka content, with Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder) writing, directing, and executive producing two animated series based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. One will be a more traditional adaptation, while the second provides a wholly original take on Wonka's singing factory workers: Oompa-Loompas.

It's Wonka-mania out there.

The kids are screaming for it. Incessantly.

it's paul king of paddington/the mighty boosh

I'm expecting Coming 2 America to be an experience a little like The Force Awakens -- I will have an involuntary wide-eyed smile and reflexively chuckle throughout the movie but it will be purely a pavlovian response to various cues in the film. I will walk away remembering almost none of it.

It should be a fun movie to find via voice-activated remote.

NOOOO, not Coming to America! Coming 2 America! 'Two', not 'to'!... GODDAMMIT, NO!

Not a flick but

The CW has ordered a pilot for ‘THE POWERPUFF GIRLS’ live-action series.

The series follows the trio as “disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting.” pic.twitter.com/P1BddfDgjX

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 9, 2021

Um.

Fucking ideas, how do they work?

HBO MAX announces 'VELMA,' an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. voiced by Mindy Kaling.

Stunt casted v.o. is taking food out of the mouth of actual voice actors!

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was about the kids in primary school, already friends and solving mysteries together.

Velma was mostly the same as her older incarnation—intelligent and soft-spoken with thick eyeglasses. The most evident change to her character was that she owned a briefcase-sized mobile computer that could determine who the culprit was in any particular episode. Velma also owned an oversized engine-propelled skateboard with a color scheme similar to the Mystery Machine, which all the characters could ride on. She had a distinctive gait during longer walks or runs (rapidly-shuffling feet), and a distinctive dance style borrowed from Peanuts character 5 (as he appears during the dance scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas)

The subsequent series What's New, Scooby Doo? included

a flashback to Velma's fifth birthday, using the character designs from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, albeit with some modifications, such as Daphne wearing purple rather than pink. Fred and Velma were the only returning characters to speak in the flashback

So if it properly respects Scooby canon, this "adult-focused comedy" will be about the adventures of a four-year-old or younger girl.

The show follows how she loses her briefcase-sized mobile computer that can determine who the culprit is

and it winds up in the hands of.....

Inspector Gadget

who then also loses it

Adam Wingard's Not Making a Face/Off Remake—It's a Sequel https://t.co/QBlQVazq1x pic.twitter.com/y8d6mdXyxb

— io9 (@io9) February 12, 2021

Face/...ON!

Face/Lift, more like.

Face/Swap

Face/Butt

there shld be a Face / Off every two years by a different director and with two different leads

or just use Statham every time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLGD8g7pTfo

I'm gonna put your face....back on your face

here's that scene without most of the jokes cut out

there shld be a Face / Off every two years by a different director and with two different leads

i would prefer this over the biennial freaky friday movie

Hello, Cruel World. New Trailer Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/oAFK0epmbB

— Walt Disney Studios (@DisneyStudios) February 16, 2021

they’re jokerfying cruella de vil

"Let me get this straight - you think dogs are only good for fur for coats?"
"They are - and I'm tired of pretending that they're not"

The hits just keep on coming

Netflix just announced the project, featuring the coming-of-age story of one #WednesdayAddams from director Tim Burton. https://t.co/Qr5obu0nIQ

— Tor.com (@tordotcom) February 17, 2021

finally we'll know how Wednesday got her powers

lol I came here because of Cruella, glad to see I was not first. At least maybe finally we will learn how Cruella got so cruel.

wednesday is the strongest addams family member to build a story around, but tim burton, ugh

Ooh, ooh, let me see if I can guess the next announcement! Let's see...perfunctory + edgy reboot of secondary (if not tertiary), decades-old character that literally no one was asking to see again, featuring the creative input of someone with a recognizable name who really needs a new boat, from a platform in desperate need of literally any content whatsoever...

The Roku Channel announces Ferguson Explains Nothing, a dark new take on the younger brother of Clarissa and his blood pact with the Dark Lord, from visionary auteur Baz Luhrmann

Was this posted?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezhm_9ehXU4

I just soiled myself.

I...yes, I'm still soiling myself. Goddamn it.

A SpaceX rocket exploding isn't going to have the same emotional impact as Challenger.

― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Friday, February 12, 2021 2:48 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

xxp the Onion's video division keeps getting better.

i'm guessing most people who grew up with punky brewster have kids who are too old for this

I have absolutely no idea who they think that show is for.

Hey why not Webster except Webster is fifty and unemployed and going back to finish his college degree and there's a wacky tween vlogger who he befriends and also no one under thirty knows who Webster even is and no one over thirty has particularly fond memories of the third-rate '80s sitcom called Webster and even the few who might aren't exactly doing flips about seeing Webster: The Depressing Middle-Aged Years.

I just soiled myself.

I...yes, I'm still soiling myself. Goddamn it.

― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, February 17, 2021 4:51 PM bookmarkflaglink

Butt Lunch

They could reboot Small Wonder as a Robot Out of Water story, where the robot kid from the '80s, still the same "age," is discovered in 2021. Hijinks, anachronisms and malapropisms ensue.

that Punky Brewster looks like a very, very, very, very poor man's Pamela Adlon/Better Things

EXCLU: Timothee Chalamet to play Willy Wonka in WB origin pic WONKA https://t.co/7iRDNk8Qa9

— Justin Kroll (@krolljvar) May 24, 2021

lol

omg, hatewatch time

WONKA: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM

4 hours, Zak Snyder directed