The first trailer for the upcoming Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel Wonka has been launched at this time, displaying Timothée Chalamet within the title function – and Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa.
Set for launch in Australian launch on December 14, the movie serves as a prequel to Roald Dahl’s beloved 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which was tailored into a movie in 1971 starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, and once more in 2005 with Johnny Depp as Wonka.
This new tackle the traditional, helmed by Paddington director Paul King, will inform the story of Wonka’s early days as an eccentric, ingenious chocolatier, earlier than he begins his personal chocolate manufacturing facility.
Chalamet options closely within the trailer, together with appearances from supporting actors together with Keegan-Michael Key, Rowan Atkinson, Sally Hawkins and Olivia Colman.
But it’s in the direction of the top of the trailer that viewers get the most important shock: None aside from Hugh Grant as a tiny green-haired, orange-skinned Oompa Loompa, trapped inside a glass bottle as he talks to Wonka.
“So you’re the funny little man who’s been following me,” Chalamet’s Wonka tells him.
“I’ll have you know I am a perfectly respectable size for an Oompa Loompa,” Grant says, earlier than busting out a flute to carry out an Oompa Loompa dance.
The authentic 1971 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie made simply $US4 million from a $US 3 million funds in 1971, however went on to be thought-about a traditional household movie.
By distinction, the 2005 remake made virtually half a billion on the international field workplace – so expectations are excessive for this prequel to repeat that success.
Source: www.news.com.au
