Timothée Chalamet is a manic candy dream boy in trailer for Wonka
By Dan Selcke
Warner Bros. has debuted a full trailer for Wonka, its origin story for fantastical chocolatier Willy Wonka, played by Gene Wilder in the beloved 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and by Johnny Depp in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that you probably forgot existed until I mentioned it just now.
Do we need to know the story of how Willy Wonka met the Oompa-Loompas and built his confectionary empire? Immaterial, it’s happening. Timothée Chalamet is playing Wonka as adorably twee. Wonka’s whole world is adorably twee, from the brightly colored costumes to the dance numbers to the giraffes, giraffes in the bank! Or wherever that is. Watch below:
Wonka comes out in theaters on December 15.
If Mad Max were a sitcom it would be Twisted Metal
I’m being kind of sarcastic above, but I dunno, maybe Wonka will be great. Who knows? In a similar vein, check out the full trailer for Twisted Metal, Peacock’s TV show based on the car combat video game series:
Anthony Mackie plays a delivery driver in a post-apocalyptic hellscape while Will Arnett and Somoa Joe play a crazy mad man in a clown mask (I like how the trailer credits both of them; Arnett is the voice and Joe the body). The trailer makes it look like the show is going for goofy action violence, which is probably the only plausible angle to take for a series based on Twisted Metal, so kudos.
Twisted Metal premieres on Peacock on July 27.
Watch the trailer for Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix
Finally, because I think it’s bad luck to write a post featuring only two trailers, please enjoy this sneak peak at Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the infamous French ruler.
This bloody biopic about one history’s greatest monsters could not be further in tone from Wonka or Twisted Metal, but if it has a trailer, it goes here:
Actually, the modern music set against scenes of historical violence is kind of goofy. Maybe Napoleon is more like those other shows and films than I thought. The movie comes out this Thanksgiving.
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