Earlier than he constructed a world of pure creativeness, Willy Wonka had a dream. The primary trailer for Wonka—the musical prequel movie starring Timothée Chalamet because the titular chocolatier initially performed by Gene Wilder—has arrived, providing a scrumptious backstory and, sure, Hugh Grant as an Oompa-Loompa.
Within the trailer for Wonka, we meet Chalamet’s younger aspiring chocolatier. “I am one thing of a magician, inventor, chocolate maker,” he says to a crowd gathered in a city sq.. The whimsy continues as Chalamet’s Wonka has to cope with a “chocolate cartel” stopping his personal chocolate enterprise from getting off the bottom. “You’ll be able to’t get a store with out promoting chocolate,” says a stern Jim Carter, who performs Aruthur Slugworth, Wonka’s largest enterprise rival. “And you may’t promote chocolate with no store.”
Wonka is produced by Barbie and Harry Potter‘s David Heyman and directed by Paddington‘s Paul King, who lately told EW that he wasn’t serious about recreating the basic Gene Wilder movie. As an alternative, he wished to “have fun old-time musicals, which I really like and are very expensive to my coronary heart.” Whereas the trailer would not reveal any of the movie’s unique songs, it does characteristic snippets of extremely choreographed dance sequences and massive manufacturing numbers—together with one which’s reduce quick as a result of city sq.’s strict “No daydreaming” rule.
For followers of the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility or Roald Dahl’s beloved youngsters’s ebook Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility, there are many chocolate-y easter eggs to feast on. Decked out in Willy Wonka’s basic velvet jacket and brown prime hat, Chalamet swirls round lamp posts within the trailer and invents a chocolate that causes three of his adversaries to drift up within the sky. And on the finish of the trailer, an appropriately gruff Grant—who performed the dastardly villain in King’s beloved movie Paddington 2—pops up as a somewhat patrician Oompa Loompa. “I’ll have you realize I’m a superbly respectable dimension for an Oompah Loompa,” says Grant.
Together with Chalamet and Grant, Wonka stars Academy-Award winner Olivia Colman, Rowan Atkinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Natasha Rothwell, Jim Carter, and Sally Hawkins as Wonka’s mom. “Each good factor on this world began with a dream,” says Hawkins. “So that you maintain on to yours.” Wonka hits theaters on December fifteenth.
