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'Harry Potter' Producer David Heyman is Rebooting 'Willy Wonka'


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Despite the tepid response to Steven Spielberg's The BFG this year, the works of Roald Dahl continue to be hot in Hollywood right now. There are already remakes -- really just new adaptations -- of James and the Giant Peach and The Witches in development, and now Willy Wonka is set to return to the big screen again. Variety reports that the famed candy maker from Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is getting a reboot care of Harry Potter producer David Heyman.   We previously saw Wonka in the classic retitled 1971 adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, with Gene Wilder iconicizing the title character on film forever, and then again in the Tim Burton-helmed 2005 version, which stars Johnny Depp...
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