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The Writer Who Gave 'Willy Wonka' His Ending

Published March 20, 2009 at 10:00 AM PDT

The film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was plenty strange. But the tale of how the ending for the movie was written is every bit as weird. Screenwriter David Seltzer tells Alex Cohen the story.

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