‘Wonka’ trailer: Timothee Chalamet delights as chaotic chocolatier; Hugh Grant appears as Oompa Loompa

The trailer for ‘Wonka’, starring Timothee Chalamet as candy maker Willy Wonka, was released on July 11. It opens with Willy Wonka talking about how he has travelled the world for seven years to learn all about chocolate before landing in a fictional town in Europe.

He is then warned that he can't own a shop without selling chocolate and the problem is that he can't sell chocolate without owning a shop. As Willy remembers his mom's words, ‘Every good thing in the world started with a dream’, he gets the willpower to set up the world’s greatest chocolate shop ever.

Olivia Colman, Rowan Atkinson, and Sally Hawkins also appear in the trailer, but a funny introduction to Hugh Grant as Oompa Loompa is the highlight of the trailer.

‘Wonka’, directed by Paul King, will release on December 15.

At a press preview of the trailer, the director said, ‘He) is a very interesting, beguiling character and it seemed really interesting to dive a little deeper into him and try and come up with something that perhaps Roald Dahl might have approved of if he'd ever tried to write a prequel.’

‘(Chalamet is) following in some extraordinarily big shoes with the people who've played the character before and I think he more than lives up to them. He manages to bring that sort of mayhem and that mischievousness but with a deep emotional grounding,’ he added.

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