Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka trailer stolen by Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa
Oompa-Loompas, explosive chocolate factories, and Timothée Chalamet flying through the air can only mean one thing: the first trailer for the new Willy Wonka prequel movie, WonkaIt has already been released ahead of the December release date.
This is a preview of the movie Wonka, a movie technically derived from Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but rooted in Warner Bros.’ 1971 classic starring Gene Wilder (likely because Netflix now owns the Dahl library), highlights some of the prequel’s strangest features and stacked cast, which includes Keegan-Michael Key, Matt Lucas, Sally Hawkins, Olivia Colman, and Mr. Bean himself, Rowan Atkinson. Hugh Grant also plays Oompa Looompa. It’s quite something.
Paul King, the movie’s director (Paddington) and it looks like it: there’s a level of earnestness that most filmmakers couldn’t get away with unless their star was a CG bear. Chalamet is going all out, switching chocolate for marmalade. His take on Wonka isn’t as eccentric as Johnny Depp’s in the Tim Burton remake from 2005, but also isn’t in line with the stoic, emotional characters that litter his filmography. He’s prancing, he’s dancing, he’s exclaiming things with whimsy. He will attempt to make this all seem cool — and maybe succeed?
In 2002, Chalamet shared to British Vogue some career advice he got from none other than Leonardo Dicaprio: “No hard drugs and no superhero movies.” But he said WonkaThe smell test was passed. He was so desperate to see this movie.
“I hate to say it, but the dream as an artist is to throw whatever the fuck you want at the wall,” he said at the time. :And I guess what I’m realizing is that one’s personal life, one’s adult life, can be quite boring and the artist’s life can still be extraordinary.”
But will Grant steal Chalamet’s spotlight? The trailer shows him dancing and he gets the last word. Maybe this is a “no matter who wins, we win” situation (unlike Alien vs. Predator). We’ll find out of Chalamet can come out on top when Wonka The movie hits cinemas Dec. 15
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