Wonka, the film that takes the name of the famous character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Willy Wonka, has released its first trailer this week with five months to go until it hits theaters around the world. One of the star appearances of the film will be that of actor Hugh Grant. The British actor and film producer will play the endearing Oompa Loompa. These memorable characters created by Roald Dahl will not be missing from the film directed this time by Paul King.
The British writer and director – the person in charge of Paddington’s films – launches to direct this film that will tell “the youth of Willy Wonka before he opened his world-famous chocolate factory”. This work is therefore based on the mythical children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, especially focused on the life of its main character.
At the end of the movie trailer, Wonka meets the green-haired, orange-faced character of Grant, who is trapped in a glass jar, and says, “So you’re the funny little man who’s been following me around?” The British actor leaves behind his well-known facet as a leading man in several Hollywood films to become one of the most peculiar and fun characters in children’s novels.
The Oompa-Loompas are characters from the books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. They are people of short stature -approximately 1.60- they live around 50 years and in turn they come from the fictional country Loompalandia. In Tim Burton’s version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) all the Oompa-Loompas were played by Deep Roy.
Hugh Grant is not the only great actor to be part of the cast for Wonka. The list of great performers includes names like Timothée Chalamet, Olivia Colman or Rowan Atkinson. The 27-year-old American actor, Timothée Chamalet, is chosen to play Willy Wonka. In Tim Burton’s 2005 adaptation, it was Johnny Depp who dressed as the person who opened that famous chocolate factory in Roald Dahl’s 1964 book.
What will presumably be one of the next Christmas movies will be released on December 15 in the United States, as reported by Warner Bros.
