Timothee Chalamet debuts as Wonka in prequel’s first trailer

Timothee Chalamet follows within the footsteps of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp to play Willy Wonka in a brand new prequel movie that appears at how Roald Dahl’s fictional character got here to like chocolate.

The primary trailer for Wonka was launched on Tuesday, displaying the 27-year-old Dune and Name Me by Your Identify actor taking part in a youthful model of the famed sweet maker, discovering cocoa beans, befriending a younger orphan woman and dreaming of getting his personal chocolate retailer.

The movie, out in December, is about earlier than the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Issue, starring Wilder as Wonka in an adaptation of Dahl’s beloved 1964 ebook Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit.

“The movie tells the wild and great story of Willy Wonka… what chocolate means to him and why he is so pushed to grow to be this extraordinary chocolate maker,” Director Paul King mentioned at a press preview of the trailer, including he needed to remain “true” to Dahl’s ebook when writing the script. “(He) is a really attention-grabbing, beguiling character and it appeared actually attention-grabbing to dive somewhat deeper into him and try to give you one thing that maybe Roald Dahl may need authorised of if he’d ever tried to write down a prequel.”

Dahl’s ebook informed the story of impoverished Charlie Bucket, who wins a golden ticket to tour Wonka’s chocolate manufacturing facility alongside different kids – the grasping Augustus Gloop, gum-loving Violet Beauregarde, spoiled Veruca Salt and tv addict Mike Teevee.

The brand new film sees Wonka arriving in a fictional European metropolis, which is dwelling to grasp chocolatiers. Like Wilder, and Depp within the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit, Chalamet is wearing Wonka’s prime hat and lengthy jacket.

“(Chalamet is) following in some terribly massive footwear with the individuals who’ve performed the character earlier than and I feel he greater than lives as much as them,” King mentioned. “He manages to carry that form of mayhem and that mischievousness however with a deep emotional grounding.”

The trailer additionally exhibits Chalamet’s well-known co-stars, together with Olivia Colman, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Grant as Oompa Loompa.

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