Willy Wonka‘s again. The chocolatier and torturer of naughty kids is getting the prequel remedy in a new movie starring Timothée Chalamet, coming to cinemas in December.
First footage of Chalamet as the mercurial Roald Dahl character was revealed Tuesday (in a single day in Australia), exhibiting a younger Wonka setting out on a quest to shake up the chocolate business and break up a confectionary cabal.
Chalamet steps into footwear beforehand crammed by Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005.
Rather than retell Dahl’s 1964 e-book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, writer-director Paul King has imagined a plucky, striving tackle the character in what he calls a “companion piece” to the 1971 movie.
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Speaking in London forward of the teaser trailer launch, King promised an all-singing, all-dancing Chalamet and a movie that “answers all the questions you never had” about Wonka.
The director shared that he’d accessed Dahl’s private archives and browse early drafts of the novel, gleaning concepts from there.
“As a writer, obviously I don’t remotely think of myself in the same breath as Roald Dahl,” he stated. “But it was very nice to be so inspired by that.”
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King, director of the beloved Paddington and Paddington 2, has solid acquainted faces together with Sally Hawkins, Tom Davis and Simon Farnaby, alongside Olivia Colman, Rowan Atkinson, Keegan-Michael Key and newcomer Calah Lane. And in a casting coup for the ages, the movie sees King group up as soon as extra with Hugh Grant, this time enjoying a grumpy, flute-playing Oompa-Loompa.
The director stated he was on the lookout for a star to play one among Wonka’s “incredibly sarcastic and judgemental and cruel” staff and landed on Grant, “the funniest, most sarcastic s–t that I’ve met.”
Much of the film was filmed on studio soundstages, stated King, though some scenes had been shot on location in the UK, providing a glimpse of the hysteria that follows his star.
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“I got an insight into Timothée Chalamet’s life, which is people leaning out of windows and screaming, ‘Marry me!'” he recalled, chuckling. “It was quite strange … I don’t know what they thought was going to happen.”
King’s gratitude in direction of Chalamet was palpable: “It was a huge commitment for him because it was a very long shoot and there was a lot [of] singing and dancing.”
“What’s so fabulous about him is you feel a lot of people his age would have been tempted to put on a superhero outfit and then sort of go and save the world,” he added. “And I managed to get him to put on a pair of heeled leather boots and do some tap dancing.”
Wonka is about to hit Australian cinemas on December 14.
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