Cosm turns 'Willy Wonka' into a multisensory experience:
The 1971 classic is reimagined at the Sphere-like venue with modern, CGI animation ...
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Key FactsNetflix turns Wonka’s factory into a reality competition
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- The series debuted on September 23, 2026, emphasizing strategic play for a $3 million prize.
- Its setting includes an edible garden, lickable wallpaper and a chocolate river made from 25,000 gallons of chocolate goop.
- An AI-generated voice of Gene Wilder announces challenges and eliminations, with explicit support from his estate and wife.
- Contestants earned entry through a golden ticket hidden in a Wonka-themed chocolate bar and face candy-themed challenges.
This is the modern-day take on the movie, so we weren’t really ever trying to be the morality police. We never ever wanted to set out to be the producers that dictated who behaved well and who behaved poorly.— Emer Harkin, showrunner of Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, explaining the series’ approach to morality and redemption
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- Netflix launches a reality competition inspired by 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' with 12 pairs facing challenging trials.
- The series features an AI-generated voice of Gene Wilder, created with Eleven Labs technology and heard in the teaser trailer.
- Despite approval from Wilder’s estate, public backlash condemns the digital use of his voice as disrespectful.
- Previous uses of AI to recreate deceased actors have raised ethical questions and provoked widespread criticism.
No matter what permissions an estate may grant, a late actor cannot consent to having their likeness used in a movie. Doing so is an immediate violation of their personhood. In reviving them for the screen, you're creating a performance in a film they might never have agreed to do, with acting choices they might never have made.— Belen Edwards (Mashable) wrote the piece; in the context of reactions to Wonka's The Golden Ticket and the use of Gene Wilder's AI-generated voice.
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