Willy Wonka meets The Man With No Name in this seven-minute fever dream of cinema.
Act One of the film The Chocolate War by critically acclaimed studio Phony Pictures; following the Breaking Bar Crew before the start of the Chocolate War.
Acting
Santa Claus as Wonka commits fully. No notes.
Direction
Gardner achieves maximum genre whiplash in under eight minutes.
Writing
The tagline suggests time loops. The runtime denies them.
Director
Franklin Gardner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phony Pictures has built an entire shared universe of fake trailers and nonexistent films, making this one of their rare 'completed' projects.
The casting of Walter White as Walter White represents peak post-ironic cinema, blurring the line between parody and desperate IP recognition.
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