“Have a scrumdiddlyumptious day!” is how Rusty Goffe, who played an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 adaptation of “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” opposite Gene Wilder, signs off our Zoom call after we speak earlier this month.
\n\nWith such Wonka-isms rolling off his tongue with ease, it’s no surprise that when Netflix, which acquired the rights to Roald Dahl’s literary estate five years ago, planned to make a Wonka-inspired game show Goffe was clearly top of their list to bring back.
\n\nIn “Wonka’s Golden Ticket,” which launched on Sept. 23, he stars alongside his son Ben Goffe — also an actor who has appeared in “Artemis Fowl,” among other titles — as well as a host of new Oompa-Loompas. (Unlike in the original film, these Oompa-Loompas “come in all shapes and sizes now,” as the contestants are told during the show.). Also back is Wilder, albeit only his voice, which has been, somewhat controversially, recreated in AI with the blessing of his wife, Wilder himself having died in 2016.
\n\nOver the course of nine episodes, viewers will see 12 contestants take part in a series of increasingly wacky challenges in the hopes of winning a “lifetime’s supply of money” (approximately…
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