Timothee Chalamet Becomes Willy Wonka in First Prequel Trailer

The Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (to say nothing about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) is a person of thriller. He lives alone in his manufacturing unit along with his Oompa Loompas. He by no means leaves, and hasn’t been seen in years till Charlie and the remainder of the youngsters discover their Golden Tickets for his or her particular manufacturing unit tour. Especially in the primary Willy Wonka movie, the place Wonka was performed by Gene Wilder, we be taught little or no about Wonka’s youth and profession. The remake starring Johnny Depp did give the character a little bit of a tragic backstory (his father was a dentist!!) however solely in a couple of flashback scenes.

The new movie Wonka is, finally, a full-blown Willy Wonka origin story. The younger model of the well-known sweet maker is performed this time by Timothée Chalamet, who definitely strikes a dashing and extra conventionally good-looking Wonka than Wilder or Depp did.

If there’s a motive to see Wonka, it is likely to be that the movie is co-written and directed by Paul King, the very proficient director of the Paddington motion pictures. You may not care about Willy Wonka’s origin. But a Wonka film of any variety from Paul King? That’s sort of attention-grabbing.

You can watch the trailer for the movie beneath:

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Yep, that’s Hugh Grant because the Oompa Loompa on the finish there. Wouldn’t you might have cherished to sit down in on the casting classes for that?

Here is the movie’s official synopsis:

Based on the extraordinary character on the heart of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic youngsters’s e-book and one of many best-selling youngsters’s books of all time, “Wonka” tells the wondrous story of how the world’s biggest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker turned the beloved Willy Wonka we all know at this time.

Wonka is scheduled to open in theaters on December 15.