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Glasgow’s disastrous Wonka character inspires horror film

A villain devised for the catastrophic Willy’s Chocolate Experience, who makes sweets and lives in walls, is to become the subject of a new horror movie

An AI-generated ad misled attendees into thinking they were forking out £35 for an “immersive experience” based on Paul King’s smash hit origin story starring Timothée Chalamet. Instead, they were ushered into a barely decorated warehouse some likened to a meth den, sparsely populated by vaguely costumed actors who quickly left, en masse. Actor Paul Connell, who played Wonka in the experience, said the script was “15 pages of AI-generated gibberish,” and introduced the “Unknown [who] is an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls.”

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