Date 01/09/2016 - News People
willy wonka and blazing saddles gene wilder Blazing Saddles & Willy Wonka Are Getting a Theatrical Re Release Last Monday, the world lost a brilliant comedic mind in the form of beloved actor, writer, author, and director Gene Wilder. Before succumbing to complications from Alzheimer?s, Wilder gave the countless hours of laughter through his books and films, including Mel Brooks? hilarious Mary Shelley re-imagining, Young Frankenstein (1974) and the madcap Richard Pryor collaboration, Stir Crazy. Among his best remembered and most beloved works, though, are the raucous box office smash Blazing Saddles and the beloved if darkly tinged childhood classic Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.