‘Wonka’ Review: Willy When He Was Young and Oh So Sweet Timothée Chalamet stars as the chocolatier in this musical origin story, playing a wide-eyed innocent instead of an eccentric mad-hatter.

Tech News Here’s the Full AI-Generated Script From the Willy Wonka Disaster The 14 pages of nonsense have ChatGPT hallucinations, frightening characters, and weirdly, no chocolate.

Richard Brody reviews “Wonka,” the prequel to the Roald Dahl classic “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” starring Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka.

Wonka has been portrayed previously by the great Gene Wilder in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” a film I have never liked, directed by documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart (“Wattstax”).

‘Wonka’: Timothée Chalamet Bites Off More Than He Can Chew in This Dizzying Musical Stepping into some big I.P. shoes, the Dune actor gets whimsical in this prequel that details how Willy got ...

‘Wonka’ Review: Whimsy in Need of a Wilder Willy Timothée Chalamet proves the weakest part of director Paul King’s generally inspired film about Roald Dahl’s chocolatier.

“Wonka,” the whimsical origin story of the fictional chocolatier, secured the top spot in domestic theaters this weekend with $39 million in sales.

Where did the smiling but kind of sadistic and creepy and manipulative and exploitative Willy Wonka come from? Do we care?

In Dahl’s original, the Oompa-Loompas were starving African pygmies, subsisting largely on a mash of green caterpillars and tree bark until “rescued” by Willy Wonka.

Directed by Paul King of the cult-favorite Paddington movies, Wonka is a prequel to the candy wonderland that captivated our imaginations in 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.

His smiling face, taken from a screengrab of the 1971 movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, has graced a thousand images and gifs expressing condescension since first surfacing five years ago.

Wonka: CinemaCon treated to extended trailer featuring Timothee Chalamet as the titular chocolate maker and Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa ...