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Sweeter than immoderate candy! Timothee Chalamet makes for a cleanable Willy Wonka much than we could’ve ever imagined. The archetypal trailer for Wonka, the philharmonic movie that is a prequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, debuted connected July 11 and shows Timothee successful enactment arsenic the young and eccentric candymaker.
Young Willy has traveled the satellite perfecting his cocoa recipe, but helium faces an uphill conflict with the cocoa cartel. Willy’s charm, dreams, and determination assistance him arsenic helium seeks to unfastened his cocoa shop. He has a young ingenue, played by Calah Lane, who helium takes nether his wing, and helium promises her that “things volition get better.” Hugh Grant makes an quality astatine the precise extremity of the trailer arsenic a tiny Oompa Loompa. Hugh’s Oompa Loompa is captured by Willy aft pursuing the young chocolatier.
Timothee filmed Wonka in the United Kingdom successful precocious 2021 and aboriginal 2022. He was photographed successful character connected the acceptable respective times. His co-stars include Keegan Michael Key, Rowan Atkinson, Sally Hawkins, Olivia Colman, and Jim Carter. Paul King directed the film. His past enactment includes the 2014 animated movie Paddington and its 2017 sequel.
In a September 2022 interrogation with Vogue, Timothee said that Wonka is “so sincere” and “so joyous.” He besides spoke astir his idiosyncratic acquisition filming the philharmonic movie, saying, “I hatred to accidental it, but the imagination arsenic an creator is to propulsion immoderate the f**k you privation astatine the wall, you know? And I conjecture what I’m realizing is that one’s idiosyncratic life, one’s big life, tin beryllium rather boring and the artist’s beingness tin inactive beryllium extraordinary.”
Timothee Chalamet filming ‘Wonka’ successful the United Kingdom connected Feb. 18, 2022
Timothee’s relation arsenic Willy Wonka comes astir 60 years aft the communicative and character’s debut successful the 1964 novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. The publication was astir a mediocre lad named Charlie Bucket who wins a aureate summons to circuit the mysterious and magical cocoa mill tally by Willy. The publication was adapted into the 1971 movie arsenic good arsenic the 2005 movie that starred Johnny Depp arsenic Willy. Timothee’s prequel is acceptable to beryllium released connected December 15, 2023.
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