Waltz welcomed the opportunity to play the movie icon. “Billy Wilder said, ‘You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.’ A Stephen Frears movie from a Christopher Hampton script ...

Christoph Waltz to take lead role in 'Billy Wilder & Me' Christoph Waltz will play the lead role in "Billy Wilder & Me," adapted from Jonathan Coe's partially true book about the Hollywood cinema ...

They took particular inspiration from Wilder's version of the eccentric inventor in 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as well as Christoph Waltz's portrayal of Nazi officer Hans Landa in ...