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Based on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book & one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, and magician, and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today. Starring Timothée Chalamet in the title role, this irresistibly vivid and inventive big screen spectacle will introduce audiences to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time—proving that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible. Wonka is directed by British filmmaker Paul King, writer / director of the Paddington films, and director of Bunny and the Bull, Come Fly with Me, Space Force, and also The Pajama Men: Last Stand to Reason previously. The screenplay is written by Simon Farnaby (Paddington 2) & Paul King, based on a story by King and characters created by Roald Dahl. It’s produced by David Heyman, Alexandra Derbyshire, and Luke Kelly. (courtesy First Showing)
Where did Wonka get to be so magically chocolatey and amazingly clever and fizzily alive?
If you’ve wondered where all that wonderful weirdness came from, then wonder no more because Wonka is going to peel back the curtain and take us into where a world of pure imagination first flickered into delicious being.
Given the pedigree of those involved, and their capacity for taking the fantastical and making it feel wondrously and intimately human, Wonka looks it’s going to be a wonderful place to go come December when it opens worldwide.
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