‘Wonka’: Everything We Know So Far About Timothée Chalamet’s Surreal, Candy-Colored Fresh Musical

Breaking News The headlines:

Breaking News Who’s within the solid of Wonka?

The heartthrob of our time, Timothée Chalamet, alongside the likes of Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant, and Sally Hawkins.

Breaking News What’s the predicament of Wonka?

The film is keep to suppose Willy Wonka’s initiating memoir, from younger adventurer to prolific chocolate maker, long sooner than his look in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit.

Breaking News When will Wonka be released?

Wonka is due to land in cinemas on December 15, 2023.

Breaking News Is there a trailer for Wonka?

Yes! Explore it beneath.

Breaking News The vital facets:

Timothée Chalamet leads a important person-studded cast

Becoming a member of the actor, who inherits the a part of the titular eccentric inventor from Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp, is—dwell up for it—Hugh Grant as a minute, inexperienced-haired Oompa Loompa; Olivia Colman as a Cockney-accented innkeeper; Sally Hawkins as Wonka’s loved mom; Matt Lucas as a member of the grisly chocolate cartel; and Rowan Atkinson as a priest. Also lending toughen? Comic Keegan-Michael Key, returning The White Lotus important person Natasha Rothwell, and Downton Abbey’s Jim Carter, all beneath the course of Paddington’s Paul King.

While genuine predicament vital facets remain beneath wraps, the first trailer, which dropped on July 11, affords a style of what we’ll leer from the long hump chocolate factory proprietor within the lush prequel. “I’ve spent the previous seven years traveling the sphere, perfecting my craft,” our hero says in its opening seconds, as we leer him crusing the excessive seas and wandering into lush forests to select exotic fruit. “I’m something of a magician, inventor and chocolate maker.” Reduce to his arrival in London, at an inn hump by Olivia Colman’s character, and a flurry of chocolate-making—however selling his wares proves subtle due to the vitality of the chocolate cartel. Cue a pastel-pink flash mob led by a mercurial-footed Chalamet, a crowd sampling sweets that fabricate you dawdle, flamingos running riot on the streets of the metropolis, a giraffe chasing Rowan Atkinson through a cathedral, and Wonka assembly Hugh Grant’s dancing Oompa Loompa.

There’ll be seven yarn musical numbers

Chalamet confirmed as important in his quilt interview for British Vogue’s October 2022 arena, adding, “This movie is so trusty, it’s so joyous.” As for how director Paul King knew the actor would possibly address that? “It was once a straight supply [without an audition] on fable of he’s gigantic and he was once the categorical person in my mind who would possibly cease it, on fable of he’s Timothée Chalamet and his lifestyles is so absurd, his excessive college musical performances are on YouTube and have a range of of thousands of views,” King now now not too long within the past urged Rolling Stone. “I knew from stanning for Timmy Chalamet that he would possibly divulge and dance in fact effectively. And I knew that was once in his arsenal, however I didn’t know the scheme correct he was once. When I spoke to him he was once slightly fervent. He’d carried out faucet dancing in excessive college and he was once be pleased, ‘I’d slightly be pleased to point to of us I can cease that.’”

It’ll be in theaters sooner than Christmas

For fans, it’s been a protracted and agonizing wait since Chalamet shared the first image of himself in character on Instagram help in October 2021, however the discontinue is now at final in to find out about: Wonka will come in cinemas on December 15, 2023.