A Reimagined ‘Willy’s Chocolate Expertise’ Is Coming to America

A recreation of “Willy’s Chocolate Experience,” the AI-generated Willy Wonka fiasco in Glasgow that left children crying and compelled the police to be referred to as, seems to be promoting tickets for its American debut. For $44, attendees will allegedly be supplied “two complimentary jelly beans” and the prospect to fulfill the mom oompa loompa, Kristy Paterson, from the unique occasion.

“YES THIS IS A REAL EVENT,” reads the occasion listing, noting the expertise will happen in a nondescript warehouse. “Get able to step right into a realm of pure creativeness because the extremely acclaimed ‘Willy’s Chocolate Expertise LA’ makes its debut in america.”

The occasion organizer says “rumors abound that famend comedians” are vying to reasonable a Q&A session following the LA expertise, although it appears they began the rumors themselves. Customers on X declare the Eventbrite itemizing earlier at present listed actor Timothée Chalemet as “maybe perhaps” expressing curiosity in attending. The Guardian studies the Eventbrite put up additionally listed Zach Galifianakis and Nathan Fielder as potential attendees, although they’ve since been eliminated.

Gizmodo has been unable to verify the particular person behind this occasion, however it doesn’t look like Billy Coull, the organizer of the unique Glasgow occasion and head of The Home of Illuminati. This L.A. occasion is hosted by “Home of Illuminati LA” on Eventbrite. Coull’s unique web site for Home of Illuminati has been taken down, and Coull reportedly mentioned his life was “ruined” by the primary Willy’s Chocolate Expertise. Home of Illuminati wrote on Fb on the time that each one 850 tickets for the Glasgow event could be refunded.

“From the underside of my coronary heart, I’m really sorry for this mess,” wrote Home of Illuminati on the original event listing.

The Eventbrite put up initially mentioned the expertise would transition to a “Shrek Rave” round 9 p.m., scheduled till 4 a.m. the subsequent day. Nevertheless, the performer behind the rave has pulled out because of damaging press, Home of Illuminati LA tells Gizmodo in an e mail. Now, the occasion is scheduled to finish at 9 p.m. and lists no rave in any respect.

Gizmodo obtained a copy of the unique Glasgow occasion’s unusual, AI-generated script. The stay expertise barely modified the names of present characters to Willy McDuff and Wonkidoodles 1 and a couple of. The script additionally featured a totally hallucinated new character that by no means appeared within the Willy Wonka films: The Unknown, an evil rival chocolate maker that lived within the partitions of the manufacturing unit. Home of Illuminati claims any resemblance to present characters is “coincidental.”