'Wonka': New look at beloved chocolate maker through 1st trailer

Timothee Chalamet will play Willy Wonka within the new prequel movie “Wonka,” which explores how the fictional character got here to like chocolate.

The first trailer for “Wonka” was launched on Tuesday, displaying the 27-year-old “Dune” and “Call Me by Your Name” 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 Factory,” starring Wilder as Wonka in an adaptation of Dahl’s beloved 1964 ebook “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

“(‘Wonka’) tells the wild and wonderful story of Willy Wonka … what chocolate means to him and why he’s so driven to become 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 very interesting, beguiling character and it seemed really interesting to dive a little deeper into him and try and come up with something that perhaps Roald Dahl might have approved of if he’d ever tried to write a prequel.”

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

The new film sees Wonka arriving in a fictional European metropolis, which is residence to grasp chocolatiers. Like Wilder and Depp within the 2005 movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Chalamet is wearing Wonka’s high hat and lengthy jacket.

“(Chalamet is) following in some extraordinarily big shoes with the people who’ve played the character before, and I think he more than lives up to them,” King mentioned.

“He manages to bring that sort of mayhem and that mischievousness but 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.