For a book with visual wonder pouring off the pages, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory has had a strange time onscreen. The 1971 adaptation with Gene Wilder is fondly remembered (but took the psychedelic grooviness of its time a little far), while Tim Burton’s 2005 telling has altogether too much of Dahl’s darkness and not enough of the innocence.
This time, the book’s star Willy Wonka is in safe hands: those of Paul King, director of the wonderful Paddington movies. With his co-writer Simon Farnaby and Harry Potter producer David Heyman, they’ve conjured up an origin story for the magical and mysterious chocolatier that should leave us with a warm, Christmassy feeling of wonders and the joys of the imagination.
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Like Paddington 2, it’s not a musical but does have musical numbers. King has called his film “a companion piece” to the 1971 film (Burton’s version seems to have been ignored), and for his Wonka chose Timothée Chalamet, star of Dune, Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird. He was, King told Rolling Stone magazine, “the only person in my mind who could do it”, adding that he had seen him sing on YouTube, and comparing his voice in an interview with Total Film to that of Bing Crosby: “There’s quite a range because it does go from a couple of bigger, showstopper-y sort of things, to moments of real, pure emotion, and he can do it all.”
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Joining Chalamet in the majority-British cast is a mix of heavyweight stars and accomplished comic actors. Sally Hawkins is Wonka’s mother, Olivia Colman a ruthless competitor, Rowan Atkinson a vicar and Hugh Grant, fresh from stealing Paddington 2, is a haughty Oompa-Loompa. Joining them for some delicious classic Dahl villainy are Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton and Paterson Joseph as Mr Prodnose, Mr Fickelgruber, and Mr Slugworth, while Wonka also has a newly created pal, Noodle, played by Calah Lane.
Continuing the British theme was the filming location, based at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire. While most of what we see was created on soundstages, there were also a few forays into the real world for filming, much of it made extra-European with lashings of fake snow. Here’s our guide to the real-life settings of Christmas 2023’s most-awaited movie.
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