Wonka's director Paul King and his co-writer Simon Farnaby speak to Yahoo UK about how the film would "suit" a West End stage.
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00:00 I loved all the musical numbers that you had.
00:01 I thought they were so well choreographed and made.
00:04 I wondered, what was that like to make it?
00:06 But also, would you love to see this kind of
00:07 head to the West End one day?
00:09 - Oh, that's an interesting idea.
00:11 - I'd love it.
00:13 - Are you a theater promoter who would make great?
00:15 - Yes.
00:16 I have a couple of million spare dollars
00:18 to mount the show.
00:20 Pounds.
00:21 I think they were, yeah, to answer your question,
00:27 the songs were, I fell in love with the songs so much.
00:31 And obviously, as I was sort of listening to Neil
00:33 writing them and crafting them with him,
00:36 to a certain extent, I was listening to them again and again
00:38 and they sort of just get under your skin
00:41 in such a glorious way.
00:42 And I spent a good kind of year waking up
00:46 with one of Neil's songs sort of on my lips,
00:49 which was a total pleasure.
00:50 And so making the sequences to them was great fun.
00:54 And again, it's something where you just go,
00:55 like, I know I love this material
00:58 and I can hold onto that love of it
01:00 and never really get bored.
01:03 So they were great fun to make.
01:05 I think it'd make a great stage show.
01:07 - I hadn't even thought of that, but yeah.
01:10 Would you like to see a stage show?
01:12 - Yeah.
01:13 (laughing)
01:14 I would.
01:15 - Yeah, which would suit it.
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