Marilyn Manson is about to turn your favorite fairy tale into your worst nightmare.

The Satanic shock rocker is set to star in a remake of the classic children’s movie “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.”

Manson says he definitely won’t play Wonka as a sweet and gentle candy czar, the way Gene Wilder did in the 1971 original.

“I really see the movie as a metaphor. I see Willy Wonka as Satan because he presents people with the temptation of picking good and evil, and they all pick evil,” Manson told London’s Sun newspaper.

“Willy Wonka is one of my favorite movies, and I think I can play that role like no one else.”

The movie is based on the beloved Roald Dahl story “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” about five kids who win a chocolate-factory tour and are booted out one by one for breaking the rules.

The factory, run by mysterious dwarfs called the Oompa Loompas, contains a river of chocolate, trees that grow sweets and giant chickens that lay candy eggs.”

The new version from Warner Brothers will be directed by Tim Burton, responsible for such spooky movies as “Sleepy Hollow,” “Batman” and “Edward Scissorhands.”

The choice of Manson is sure to drive many parents crazy – the pale-white rocker is notorious for his twisted stage act which uses chain saws, fake blood and fire.

In real-life, Manson owns the ancient skeleton of a 7-year-old Chinese boy and reportedly keeps a torture rack in his dressing room.

His X-rated songs include: “Cake and Sodomy,” “Antichrist Superstar,” “Wormboy,” and “Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World.”

And the cover of his latest smash record “Holy Wood” has been banned by some retail chains because it features Manson in a crucifix pose, with his lower jaw missing.

But the controversial entertainer says those who condemn his act should give him a chance as Wonka.

“The film will still have a beautiful message – our hero Charlie does a good, honest deed,” Manson insists.

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TALE OF THE TAPE

(Stage name, Real name, Profession, Career highlights, Career lowlights, Hobbies, Famous line, Biggest honor, Fan base)

* GENE WILDER, Jerry Silberman, Comic actor, writer., Starring in “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Young Frankenstein”, Starring in “Hanky Panky” and “Haunted Honeymoon.”, Watercolor painting, “That’s Frank-en-steen!”, Oscar nominations for best adapted screenplay (“Young Frankenstein”) and best supporting actor (“The Producers.”), Lovers of classic slapstick

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MARILYN MANSON, Brian Warner, Shock-rock star, Recording “Antichrist Superstar,” “Holy Wood” and “Smells Like Children.”, Ripping up the “Book of Mormon” in Salt Lake City; mooning fans on the MTV Video Music Awards., Reading bios of Hitler and Stalin., “White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.”, Given the title of reverend by Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of Church of Satan., Bored suburban kids and Satanists