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Wonka
Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
2023 · Directed by Paul King · 117 min · Comedy · Family · Fantasy · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
Every good thing in this world started with a dream.
Plot
Willy Wonka, a young chocolatier, arrives at the Galéries Gourmet with dreams of establishing his own chocolate shop. Wonka is coerced to stay at Mrs. Scrubitt's boarding house by her co-worker, Bleacher, and unknowingly signs a predatory contract due to his illiteracy. The next day, he introduces "hoverchocs", which make the consumer fly, but rival chocolatiers Arthur Slugworth, Gerald Prodnose, and Felix Fickelgruber have Wonka's earnings confiscated by Officer Affable for selling without a shop. Unable to pay the contract's exorbitant fees, Wonka is forced to work in Scrubbitt's launderette alongside her foster daughter, Noodle, and fellow captives Abacus Crunch, Piper Benz, Larry Chucklesworth, and Lottie Bell.
Wonka befriends Noodle, who agrees to teach him how to read. Meanwhile, the "Chocolate Cartel" bribe the Chief of Police to torment Wonka. Crunch, having previously worked for Slugworth as an accountant, reveals that the Cartel has a secret vault of chocolate, used for bribes to maintain their power. Wonka and the launderette workers embark on a chocolate-selling crusade to alleviate their debts, using the city's storm drains to evade the police. Wonka discovers his chocolates are being pilfered by an Oompa Loompa named Lofty, who seeks retribution for the cocoa beans Wonka took from Loompaland under his watch.
Wonka finally opens his dream chocolate shop, but the Cartel enlist Scrubitt to sabotage his chocolates with Yeti sweat and different unnamed "poisons". As a result, Wonka's customers become disfigured from the sabotaged chocolates and are outraged. Chaos ensues, leading to the destruction of the shop. Wonka reluctantly accepts the Cartel's offer to pay off everyone's debts in exchange for him leaving town by boat. The laundry workers are released, but Slugworth pays Scrubitt to keep Noodle indefinitely. Wonka deduces that Noodle and Slugworth are related, before he, with Lofty aboard, realizes the Cartel has rigged the boat to explode. After escaping from the boat and rescuing Noodle, Wonka and his friends devise a strategy to obtain the Cartel's incriminating account book.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Simon Farnaby, Paul King
- Cinematography: Chung Chung-hoon
- Edited by: Mark Everson
- Music: Joby Talbot
- Production design: Nathan Crowley
- Produced by: Luke Kelly, Alexandra Derbyshire, David Heyman
Cast
- Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka
- Calah Lane as Noodle
- Keegan-Michael Key as Chief of Police
- Hugh Grant as Oompa Loompa
- Paterson Joseph as Arthur Slugworth
- Olivia Colman as Mrs. Scrubbit
- Tom Davis as Bleacher
- Jim Carter as Abacus Crunch
- Rowan Atkinson as Father Julius
- Matt Lucas as Prodnose
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, The Roald Dahl Story Company, Heyday Films
- Budget: $125,000,000
- Box office: $634,502,312
- Themes: factory, chocolate, candy, musical, prequel, duringcreditsstinger, cartel, joyous, amused
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