What if Richard Pryor had SOMEHOW ended up in

[Maxirad]

…Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? I ask because Pryor appeared in several movies with Gene Wilder.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

Amusing thought, but what role would he have played? Wonka didn’t have a sidekick unless you count Slugworth who appears a few times. I suppose Pryor could have played one of the parents. Or they could have just taken license and added a sidekick.

 

[CaptFun]

He’d have been great playing Charlie himself AND his Grandfather Joe.

These days the Charlie Character could be semi-animated. Maybe it’s not too late.

JFK, LBJ and Nixon made posthumous appearances in Forrest Gump after all!

Imagine Pryor in this scene (with Wilder as Wonka still of course).

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GRANDPA JOE: I just wanted to ask about the chocolate. The
lifetime supply of chocolate, for Charlie. When does he get
it?

WONKA: He doesn’t.

GRANDPA JOE: Why not?

WONKA: Because he broke the rules.

GRANDPA JOE: What rules? We didn’t see any rules, did we,
Charlie?

WONKA: Wrong, sir, wrong! Under Section Thirty-Seven B of
the contract signed by him it states quite clearly that all
offers shall become null and void if–and you can read it
for yourself in this photostatic copy: “I, the undersigned,
shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein
and herein contained, et cetera, et cetera . . . fax mentis
incendium gloria culpum, et cetera, et cetera . . . memo bis
punitor delicatum!” It’s all there, black and white, clear
as crystal! You stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks. You bumped
into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized,
so you get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!

GRANDPA JOE: You’re a crook! You’re a cheat and a swindler!
That’s what you are. How can you do a thing like this?
Build up a little boy’s hopes and then smash all his dreams
to pieces. You’re an inhuman monster!

WONKA: I said Good Day!

GRANDPA JOE: Come on, Charlie, let’s get out of here. I’ll
get even with him if it’s the last thing I ever do. If
Slugworth wants a Gobstopper, he’ll get one.

 (Long pause.)

CHARLIE: Mr. Wonka . . .

 (Charlie leaves the Gobstopper on Willy Wonka's desk.)

WONKA: So shines a good deed in a weary world. Charlie . .
. my boy . . . You won! You did it! You did it! I knew
you would; I just knew you would. Oh, Charlie, forgive me
for putting you through this. Please, forgive me.

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He’d have been great playing Charlie himself AND his Grandfather Joe.

Would Richard Pryor have sounded like…Mudbone?