WONKA MAGIC!
Wonka’s The Golden Ticket is dusting off an iconic set piece from the beloved 1971 film starring Gene Wilder.
The upcoming Netflix game show will feature Wonkavision 2.0, a revamped stage styled after the all-white broadcast studio featured in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. In the original film, Wonkavision 2.0 is where Mike Teavee, played by Paris Themmen, was schooled on the effects of TV addiction.
Wonkavision 2.0 will feature a “vanishing” illusion, where contestants will “disappear” into and be “transported” between sets. Designed by Australian magician and magic consultant Adam Mada, the illusions use a fade box where contestants can be seen disappearing and reappearing on the studio monitors in real time.
“It is a beautiful illusion which uses no camera tricks at all, no post and no editing,” Mada tells PEOPLE. “And it works as well as it does for the camera as it does for the real live contestants inside the set. They actually watch the contestants fade and disappear in front of their eyes.”
Holloway tells PEOPLE the contestants were “riveted” by Mada’s illusions, as well as other “mind-boggling tricks.”
Wonka’s The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix Sept. 23, culminating in a two-part finale on Sept. 30.






















