Timothée Chalamet Turns into Genius Chocolatier in New ‘Wonka’ Trailer

Timothée Chalamet as inventor Willy Wonka is decided to remodel humanity one scrumptious chocolate bon bon at a time within the newest whimsical trailer for Wonka, which Warner Bros. launched on Thursday.

“I assume it’s time to vary the world,” Chalamet enjoying the titular chocolatier declares within the teaser trailer (under) for the upcoming tentpole prequel from Paddington helmer Paul King, which relies on Roald Dahl’s well-liked kids’s e-book Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility.

He performs a younger Willy Wonka going through off in opposition to a chocolate cartel that wishes to maintain him from working towards his craft. “It’s best to stand as much as these bullies, give ‘em the ol one-two,” Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa character tells Wonka at one level.

Chalamet’s musical numbers embody dancing in an enormous chocolate fountain and faucet dancing in a magical manufacturing facility as he presses on in opposition to threats from the cartel to cease making delectable candies. Warner Bros. has described the prequel — the movie is about to take place earlier than the occasions of the e-book — as a “vivid, legendary beginnings of the imaginative younger inventor earlier than he turns into the famend scrumdiddlyumptious Mozart of chocolate.”

Wonka additionally stars Calah Lane, Natasha Rothwell, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Rowan Atkinson and Oscar winner Olivia Colman.

Simon Farnaby and Paul King wrote the screenplay, based mostly on a narrative by King and characters created by Dahl. David Heyman, Luke Kelly and Alexandra Derbyshire produce.

Wonka will hit theaters beginning Dec. 6 and in North America on Dec. 15, 2023 by way of Warner Bros. Footage.