Candy is dandy! Fictional chocolatier Willy Wonka was first immortalized on screen by the late Gene Wilder in 1971, but his interpretation of the Roald Dahl character would not be the last.In 2005, Johnny Depp donned the top hat in Tim Burton‘s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and soon, Timothée Chalamet will take up the velvet coat in a new prequel film simply titled Wonka.Announced in May 2021, the new film is set to follow the eccentric candymaker in the early days before he became the world-renowned entrepreneur known for hiding golden tickets in chocolate bars.
The Depp version included some flashbacks to Wonka’s early life, but the new movie will seemingly focus entirely on the events before Charlie Bucket and company’s dramatic
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