Timothée Chalamet's Wonka looks… exactly like you’d expect

Timothée Chalamet's Wonka looks… exactly like-minded you'd expect

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Timothée Chalamet has shared the first official count at Wonka, the upcoming Charlie and the Coffee Factory prequel headed to theaters in 2023.

The Dune thespian tweeted an image of himself in dress up as the eponymous chocolatier, and also posted a further envision to Instagram which presumptively shows his character opening up a secret compartment hidden inside his notable cane.

The images serve as the first official glimpse of the movie, which is existence helmed away Paddington director Paul King. Like the Mel Stuart and Tim Burton adaptations of Roald Dahl's 1964 new before it, the story of Wonka will be told as a musical.

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Chalamet accompanied his Instagram post (below) with the caption, "The suspense is terrible, I hope IT will last," in reference to Gene Thornton Wilder's interpretation of Wonka in the 1971 picture show, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

Different its predecessors, though, King's movie volition follow the titular character and his adventures preceding to opening the creation's most renowned burnt umber mill – communicatory ground non overgrown in Pigeon pea's new beyond occasional allusions to Wonka's troubled childhood.

Principal photography along the film, which is besides set to star Keegan-Michael Key, Sally Sir John Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman and Jim Carter, reportedly began in September 2021, and a release date has been scheduled for Process 17, 2023.

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Minded the Film industry adaptations that have followed Dahl's novel, the author's underived story is forthwith a decidedly well-trodden tale, and it's nobelium wonder that audiences aren't exactly chomping at the bit for another Wonka adjustment.

Even so, Paul King's movie, being a prequel story that we can only assume hasn't been told before, looks to have a caliber of talent committed that could breathe new lifespan into the iconic character.

King himself has a history of successfully adapting noted children's stories into improbably watchable movies – his Paddington adventures were cardinal of the most well-received films of the last decade – while Chalamet, World Health Organization saw off competition from like Donald Glover, Ezra Miller and Tom Holland for the lead role, is arguably Hollywood's most in-demand leading man.

Still, you give the sack't service just feel American Samoa though Wonka's talented rove and crew leave throw to try something dramatically different with this hallowed IP if the movie is to be a success.

Chalamet, particularly, would do well to depart from the overly-eccentric (but nonetheless brilliant) interpretations offered by both Thornton Wilder and Johnny Depp before him, if only to fork over audiences a thoroughly unique – and therefore more compelling – drive on the character.

It has to be same, though, that this outset look at Chalamet atomic number 3 the "scrumdiddlyumptious Mozart of chocolate" doesn't exactly scream 'different'. The character's dress up appears near-identical to those worn by the Wonkas of yesteryear, and its melodious-based story suggests we won't be treated to a dark origin tale in the vein of Todd Phillips' Jokester (which seems, in fairness, a good motility).

That being said, King and co. could surprise us with a theatrical interpretation akin to Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, operating theater a more subtle sing-along-adventure à la Damien Chazelle's La La Land.

Whatsoever happens, let's just hope Wonka isn't another Cats.

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