Wonka

How tall is he? He is the same height as me.

And you had your arm around Wonka.

Oh my God.

I woke up only, only.

Wonky Willy and Winky Willy Wonka.

Only I said Zaynab, the voice note that morning.

I wouldn't have believed it.

Well, there's multiple things I want to have happen, but Johnny Gargano is his Grandpa Joe phase right now, where he just jumped out of bed, and all of a sudden, that Charlie got this golden ticket, this motherfucker can walk, he can dance, he can sing, he can do everything.

He can be a menace, he can call Wonka a crook, because he thinks he's so funny.

Johnny Gargano is in that bullshit.

But what I would like for Johnny Gargano and Sammy Zayn in this situation is a situation I like to call the Ryan Paradox.

It's a perpetual generational cycle.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in 1971, plus two more recent Wonka films, The Witches twice, Matilda twice, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, Fantastic Mr.

Fox.

But the text makes a very specific fascinating point about the mechanics of a Dahl adaptation.

Fox and the 1996 Danny DeVito version of Matilda because those films deeply understood and honored that slightly wicked, menacing tone.

And much like Christie and King, Dahl himself despised the most famous adaptation of his work.

He completely hated the 1971 Willy Wonka.

A constant reminder that authorial approval and popular immortality are two completely different currencies in Hollywood.

Dancing with the Stars is coming.

Wonka's Golden Ticket is coming.

We just got a lot of fun, different stuff.

So get into it all.

He'd had the countdown with her, all of that.

So I'm sitting there thinking, "What do I do with the 1st?" And the Wonka movie was out, the new one, the Timothée Chalamet version.

Uh, it had just come out that week, and he'd been asking about it.

So I took him to Silver Spot.