As an alternative to re-creating the Chocolate Factory and Willy Wonka for another time, Warner Bros. is selecting to express the indefinable candy catalog /creator’s origin story and have fixed Timothée Chalamet as the title character.
The creators
Wonka will be founded on characters formed by Roald Dahl, concentrating on a young Willy Wonka and his escapades preceding to opening the creation’s most well-known chocolate factory.Paddington‘s Paul King will direct from the script he wrote with Simon Farnaby with previous writers comprising Simon Stephenson, Simon Rich, Steven Levenson, and Jeff Nathanson.
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About Willy Wonka
It marks the third time WB has occupied on the Wonka story, with the preceding forms being versions of Dahl’s classic novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The first one, in 1971, featured Gene Wilder as Wonka, and the next in 2005 featured Johnny Depp in the part. While Wonka initially had dark-ish substantial, it’s uncertain what direction this foundation story will take.