Timothée Chalamet Brings Whimsical ‘Wonka’ Trailer to CinemaCon

World, are you ready for Wonka? Warner Bros. hope so as the studio dropped a new trailer starring Timothée Chalamet as chocolate lover Willy Wonka in the Paul King-directed musical at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday morning.

The trailer, which was room-only, showed off many of Willy Wonka’s character mainstays, including chocolate who makes one float, and kicker: Hugh Grant as Oompa-Loompa, who had the audience laughing. crowd. Chalamet called working with Grant “a dream come true.” He added of the Oompa-Loompa character, “it was a trip.”

The whimsical trailer also revealed that Willy Wonka has to go up against a chocolate cartel that wants to stop him from practicing his craft.

The screening came a year after Warners first revealed footage at CinemaCon 2022 of a singing and dancing Chalamet as the titular character created by author Roald Dahl and played by Gene Wilder in the classic Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory (1971). “Is everyone ready?

Chalamet plays alongside Olivia Colman, Keegan-Michael Key, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Colin O’Brien, Matt Lucas, Simon Farnaby, Natasha Rothwell, Rufus Jones and many more. Warner Bros. described the prequel – the film set before the events of the book – as “the vivid and mythical beginnings of the imaginative young inventor before he became the famous scrumdiddlyumptious Mozart of chocolate”.

King directed from a script he co-wrote with Farnaby. David Heyman, Luke Kelly and Alexandra Derbyshire are the producers.

In a British vogueOn profile, Chalamet revealed he had seven musical numbers in the film, which he described as “so heartfelt” and “so joyful.” When THR met Chalamet co-star Keegan-Michael Key at the premiere of his Hulu series To restarthe shared even more.

“I would agree with all the adjectives used by Timothy, and would also like to add the words ‘wonderful’ and ‘a bit epic’. It’s a beautiful, big, full, beautiful work of art, and Paul King, who directed it, is a lovely human being who has this wonderful, childlike heart, and he was the perfect person to lead the project,” Key said.

And how is Chalamet as Mr. Wonka? “There’s this wonderful ease in the way he plays Wonka, not to mention the fact that there’s this quality of hope that he gives to the character, a kind of indomitable quality that he will never give up, he is always ready for the next thing. He’s like, ‘OK, that didn’t work? We’ll do that and we’ll try something else. And Timothée Chalamet, what can I say? Damn it ! This kid, you know, he exudes charisma and wonderful confidence. He’s just a really delightful artist.

Wonka is slated for release before the Christmas holidays on December 15th. CinemaCon, the convention of the National Association of Theater Owners, is being held inside Caesars Palace in Las Vegas through Thursday.