Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka Prequel Just Bagged a Factory-Load of Stars

There’s no golden ticket wanted for Warner Bros. The studio is lastly going forward with its origin story for Roald Dahl’s mysterious, marvelous confectionary king in Wonka, which is celebrating the start of manufacturing by casting what looks like half of England within the course of.

In a brand new launch supplied to press at this time, Warner Bros. introduced that manufacturing has begun within the UK on Wonka, which they describe as “an origin story that explores the vivid, mythical beginnings of the imaginative young inventor before he becomes the renowned scrumdiddlyumptious Mozart of chocolate.” Seems a bit overboard, however equally overboard is the announcement of a large forged to hitch Dune and Call Me By Your Name’s Timothée Chalamet, who will play the titular chocolatier in a script penned by Paul King together with his Paddington 2 companion, Simon Farnaby (the most recent in an extended line of drafts from writers Simon Rich, Simon Stephenson, Jeff Nathanson, and Steven Levenson).

Farnaby may even seem within the movie, alongside—deep breath—Mr. Bean icon Rowan Atkinson, and The Crown’s queen of England and queen of our hearts Olivia Colman, in addition to Mathew Baynton, Jim Carter, Richard Fulcher, Paterson Joseph, Colin O’ Brien, Natasha Rothwell, Rakhee Thakrar, Ellie White, and Keegan-Michael Key. The different half of the forged is a veritable Paddington reunion—apart from Farnaby himself, fuzzy bear alumni in Wonka consists of Tom Davis, The Shape of Water’s Sally Hawkins, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and Matt Lucas. The connections don’t cease there, both: behind the cameras, editor Mark Everson and costume designer Lindy Hemming additionally return from the Paddington movies, alongside director of images Seamus McGarvey and manufacturing designer Nathan Crowley, with the Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon offering unique songs for the movie.

At that time, perhaps they need to’ve simply introduced Paddington himself alongside for the journey, however perhaps there’s sufficient going off in Wonka’s future factories that you just don’t want him. He’d want marmalade to chocolate, anyway. Wonka is at the moment set to launch in theaters March 17, 2023.

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