11/9/2022 0 Comments Wally wonderlandAnd every so often, his watch alarm goes off, he’ll gulp a punch and maybe take a break by playing pinball.īut those damned animatronic critters that fill this place? Their eyes follow him around. The Stranger brought his own case of Punch Cola with him. The silent stranger takes off his sunglasses, dons a t-shirt like a “real employee,” and gets to work as the doors are padlocked behind him. It closed a few years back because “mommy ‘safety’ organizations shut us down.” But Tex has a dream. He’ll cover the car repairs if he’ll “stay the night cleaning” this abandoned but to-be-reopened funhouse attraction, Willy’s Wonderland. #WALLY WONDERLAND DRIVER#A Camero-driving stranger (Cage) is bushwhacked on the road, a “helpful” tow truck driver ( Chris Warner) picks him up - for a price.Īnd the owner of this theme park, Tex ( Ric Reitz) is there to make him a deal. “Willy’s Wonderland” is a haunted theme park tale. Because with James Brown gone, THIS is “the hardest working man in show business.” Or the Joe Exotic miniseries he will star in. But maybe “The Underbearable Weight of Massive Talent” will be. “Willy’s Wonderland” isn’t one of those movies. It keeps him sane.Īnd every so often, a “Joe” or “Color Out of Space” or “Mandy” comes along and has everybody saying, “I’ve ALWAYS thought Nic Cage was cool!” Especially if, as he once told me in an interview, he needs the constant distraction of constant work. And while his contemporaries may grimace through one straight-to-video dog after another, silently seething at the status they’ve lost, ol’Nic just keeps burnishing that South by Southwest/Comic Con/C-movie nerd approved image.īecause collecting little checks, one right after the other, is just as good as a big payday every couple of years. Say this for the quixotic career of Nicolas Cage, Academy Award winner, “Moonstruck” star, “National Treasure” national treasure - the man knows his brand. “I’ll do it so long as I don’t have to talk.” But the Oscar winning actor had one rider he insisted on in his contract. “Yeah, I’ll do your little movie,” the pitch meeting ended, probably a short one, probably handled by phone.
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