Willy Wonka‘s again. The chocolatier and torturer of naughty youngsters is getting the prequel therapy in a brand new movie starring Timothée Chalamet, coming to cinemas in December.
First footage of Chalamet because 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 sneakers beforehand stuffed by Gene Wilder in 1971 and Johnny Depp in 2005.
Fairly than retell Dahl’s 1964 guide Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit, 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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Talking in London forward of the teaser trailer launch, King promised an all-singing, all-dancing Chalamet and a movie that “solutions all of the questions you by no means had” about Wonka.
The director shared that he’d accessed Dahl’s private archives and skim early drafts of the novel, gleaning concepts from there.
“As a author, clearly I do not remotely consider myself in the identical breath as Roald Dahl,” he stated. “But it surely was very good to be so impressed by that.”
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King, director of the beloved Paddington and Paddington 2, has forged 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 crew up as soon as extra with Hugh Grant, this time taking part in a grumpy, flute-playing Oompa-Loompa.
The director stated he was on the lookout for a star to play considered one of Wonka’s “extremely sarcastic and judgemental and merciless” employees and landed on Grant, “the funniest, most sarcastic s–t that I’ve met.”
A lot of the film was filmed on studio soundstages, stated King, though some scenes have been shot on location within the UK, providing a glimpse of the hysteria that follows his star.
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“I bought an perception into Timothée Chalamet’s life, which is individuals leaning out of home windows and screaming, ‘Marry me!'” he recalled, chuckling. “It was fairly unusual … I do not know what they thought was going to occur.”
King’s gratitude in the direction of Chalamet was palpable: “It was an enormous dedication for him as a result of it was a really lengthy shoot and there was lots [of] singing and dancing.”
“What’s so fabulous about him is you are feeling lots of people his age would have been tempted to placed on a superhero outfit after which kind of go and save the world,” he added. “And I managed to get him to placed on a pair of heeled leather-based boots and do some faucet dancing.”
Wonka is about to hit Australian cinemas on December 14.
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