I am pretty sure most of you have heard of the character called Willy Wonka from Roald Dahl’s classic novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. In the 2006 film adaptation of the novel, Johnny Depp portrayed Wonka rather skillfully and was lauded by critics and audiences alike. The character became iconic in the world of cinema after the film’s release and you how today’s cinema is like. If something’s iconic, it’s going to be used and re-used until it stops being iconic. However, that might not be the case with the upcoming film Wonka directed by Paul King as it serves as a prequel to the 2006 film and will feature Timothée Chalamet in the titular role. For fan, we have some incredible news today!
Wonka Movie Trailer Leaked Description
As you may know, CinemaCon 2023 has officially begun and Warner Bros panel took the main stage on Tuesday. The attendees were showered with load of updates about upcoming WB projects like Dune 2 trailer, Joker 2 teaser, Furiosa (Mad Max) teaser, Blue Beetle footage, Aquaman 2 footage, and much more. Among all this, fans were also given a first look at the trailer for Paul King’s Wonka starring Timothée Chalamet.
We are introduced to a young and poor Willy Wonka who lives with this young girl played by Calah Lane, a new original character who acts like a pseudo-sister for the aspiring candy maker. Willy is seen traveling to exotic jungles, perfecting the art of making chocolate from cacao beans. The young man has a dream of owning a shop to sell his own chocolate via his original recipes, but the distribution of sweets in the industrial town he lives in is controlled by a “chocolate cartel,” which is really just a group of greedy businessmen. Wonka cannot fulfill his dreams of selling chocolate if he can’t get passed the chocolate cartel in order to set up a shop.
He decides to get extremely creative in pursuing his dreams, distributing his magical candy to the people of the town and building a name for himself the old-fashioned way. When the cartel comes to stop him, he gives them a piece of his chocolate and it sends them floating in the air, which gets the attention of the townspeople. Keegan-Michael Key enters the scene as a comical policeman who tries to stop Wonka’s hijinks for what looks to be the rest of the film. The footage ends with Hugh Grant being introduced as a short oompa loompa stuck in a glass jar. He is orange and has the same green hairdo as in 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Willy accuses the oompa loompa of spying on him but the short companion tries to explain the situation through song. He takes out and blows on a flute, then tells an annoyed Willy, “Once we start we have to finish the song.” Directed by Paul King of the Paddington series, Wonka flaunts a whimsical tone and sweeps audiences away with a gleeful spirit. It fully plays into the charm of author Roald Dahl’s original children’s book. Timothée Chalamet’s interpretation of a young Willy Wonka is rebellious, a bit blunt in the vein of Gene Wilder’s famous performance, and more importantly, purely magical. We see him fly across town by holding a large collection of balloons and fully embrace himself in multiple musical performances. Wonka, like Paul King’s past films, seems to be an ideal blend of cinematic fun for older and younger audiences alike.
