Timothee Chalamet probably wasn’t too pleased when he exited the Lakers game on Christmas Day.
07.12.2023 - 16:01 / nypost.com
Wonka” was another “cynical money grab” by Hollywood amid the film industry’s ongoing reboot trend. “Like many people, when there are remakes, I feel very protective over the original character and versions you love,” Chalamet, 27, told GameRadar+ on Monday.
“Your eyebrows go up with skepticism about [whether] this is a legitimate, worthwhile story or a cynical money grab.”However, according to the “Dune” star, he knew immediately that this reincarnation of Roald Dahl’s beloved tale was something more than it let on. “The song ‘Hat Full of Dreams’ was in there,” Chalamet said, referring to the film’s opening number.
“And there was no music to accompany it, but the lyrics were so clever.” “[It’s] about this young Willy, who was definitively not the crazy, cynical, kind of jaded, brain-fried version that we see in the two prior films but was very hopeful, young, ambitious, won’t-take-no-for-an-answer, maybe a little naive,” he continued. “I think that’s very clever.”Chalamet is the third actor to portray the famous chocolatier, succeeding both Gene Wilder, who originated the role in 1971, and Johnny Depp in the 2005 remake, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Chalamet’s version reportedly focuses on Wonka’s worldwide adventures and his meeting and subsequent partnership with the Oompa Loompas, rather than his search for a successor.According to director Paul King, casting the “Call Me By Your Name” star was a no-brainer, and he offered the role to Chalamet without an audition.
“He was the only person in my mind who could do it,” King, 45, told Rolling Stone. Hugh Grant, who plays a green-haired Oompa Loompa, revealed that he had a less than a scrumdiddlyumptious time on the film’s set.
Timothee Chalamet probably wasn’t too pleased when he exited the Lakers game on Christmas Day.
Timothée Chalamet says he’s heard a wealth of unreleased Bob Dylan music in preparation to play the iconic artist in an upcoming biopic.In preparation for his role in the upcoming biopic Complete Unknown, Dylan’s longtime manager Jeff Rosen, who will also be serving as a producer on the film, gave Chalamet access to a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Dylan songs which were recorded between 1959 and 1964.“This might earn the ire and wrath of a lot of Bob fans, rightfully,” Chalamet said in a recent interview with Happy Sad Confused’s Josh Horowitz, “but he sent me like a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Bob stuff from like 1959 to ’64. I feel like I’m holding onto gold or something.”He added that some of the music available to the public via bootlegs like ‘The Minnesota Tapes’.The film is being directed by Le Mans ’66 filmmaker James Mangold and, rather than chronicling Dylan’s entire life and career, it will focus on Dylan’s controversial decision in 1965 to embrace the electric guitar, alienating many of his original fans.Chalamet will be singing in the film and said that in preparation, he has been working alongside the team who assisted Austin Butler for Elvis.The project was announced in 2020, before being delayed indefinitely later that year with no release timeframe shared.
Just days before Christmas, Timothée Chalamet is heading out to run some errands!
It’s not news to say that Timothée Chalamet is a fantastic young actor. His award-winning, acclaimed career thus far proves that point.
Timothée Chalamet‘s Wonka has topped the global box office.The musical prequel directed by Paul King pulled in a whopping $92.6million (£73.1million) over the weekend, topping the box office in 60 of its 77 international markets, according to Screen Daily. Its worldwide total currently stands at $150million (£118.4million).In the US, it made its debut pulling in $39million (£30.8million) over the weekend to top the box office and enjoyed strong openings in France at $5.1million (£4million) and Australia $4million (£3.2million).The UK/Ireland leads the international pack with $23.2million (£18.3million) after 10 days, ahead of Mexico with $11.2million (£8.3million).
Fans are still getting a laugh out of Timothee Chalamet‘s Troye Sivan impression!
While it may not be the overall best movie of 2023, “Barbie” certainly is the movie of 2023. It was the year’s highest-grossing film, brought the Kenergy, and is a profoundly rewatchable film.
Timothée Chalamet has spoken about his cancelled cameo appearance in Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie.On a recent episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Chalamet spoke of his axed cameo, which was also set to feature his Lady Bird co-star Saoirse Ronan that sadly never came to fruition.While on the show, Fallon asked Chalamet: “I heard there was a rumour that you were supposed to be in Barbie?”. Chalamet confirmed the rumour, explaining: “There was an idea for Saoirse Ronan and I to do a cameo in it.”However, the Wonka actor revealed that he still doesn’t know what their cameos would have entailed: “I don’t know what the cameo would’ve been.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Timothée Chalamet was supposed to cameo in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie alongside their “Lady Bird” and “Little Women” star Saoirse Ronan, but he never found out what the director had planned for her former collaborators. Scheduling conflicts prevented Ronan and Chalamet from appearing in “Barbie,” which became Warner Bros.’ top-grossing film in history and the biggest movie of 2023 with $1.4 billion in box office sales. “There was an idea for Saoirse Ronan and I to do a cameo in it,” Chalamet said during a recent interview on “The Tonight Show.” “I don’t know what the cameo would’ve been.
Timothée Chalamet crashed Hugh Grant‘s recent appearance on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.Grant, who plays an Oompa Loompa in Paul King’s Wonka, appeared on Tuesday’s (December 12) episode of the US chat show, where he discussed his experience playing a variety of “weirdos, freaks, and perverts” in the latter stages of his career. He also explained how he recently became a fan of the K-Pop girl group Blackpink.However, towards the end of the interview, Fallon revealed that he’d “run out of questions” and turned to the audience for help. In response, a disguised Chalamet wearing a brown leather jacket, a fake moustache, and a Love Actually cap stepped up to ask a question.“Hey, Hugh, big fan, happy to see you,” said the poorly disguised Chalamet, prompting excited cheers and screams from the studio audience.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Timothée Chalamet was quoted in a recent interview with People magazine saying that his upcoming musical “Wonka” is his mother’s favorite Timothée Chalamet movie. It turns out that’s not the case. Appearing on “Good Morning America,” the Oscar-nominated actor revealed his mom, Nicole Flender, actually called him after the People interview ran in order to correct him.
Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet are going strong, and the reality TV star and beauty mogul ensures she supports her boyfriend during his big appearances. The actor attended the red carpet of the premiere of his upcoming movie. According to People, Jenner showed up alongside her mom, Kris Jenner, to the premiere of Wonka at the Regency Village Theatre.
Timothée Chalamet is talking all things Wonka, including a potential sequel!
Timothee Chalamet and Keegan-Michael Key shared quite the embrace at the premiere of their new movie Wonka held at Regency Village Theatre on Sunday (December 10) in Los Angeles.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Timothée Chalamet admitted to GamesRadar+ that he originally worried “Wonka” might be a “cynical money grab” given Hollywood studios’ recent trend of rebooting every bit of IP it possibly can. Chalamet was offered the chance to lead the film, which is a musical prequel that tells the story of how Willy Wonka became a world famous chocolatier. “Like many people, when there are remakes, I feel very protective over the original character and versions you love,” Chalamet said.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Every fan of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) loves the scene where Gene Wilder, as the mystical candy maker, takes his guests on a psychedelic tunnel ride, zooming through the bowels of the Chocolate Factory as he chants a little verse (“There’s no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going…”), getting angrier and more hysterical by the second. Wilder’s Wonka was a sweetheart, but he had a hidden maniacal side. And in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Tim Burton’s majestically wacked 2005 remake, Johnny Depp, then at the apex of his movie stardom, went full Depp, playing Wonka like some louche vampiristic cross between Anna Wintour and Michael Jackson.
You might not be able to tell it from the trailers but Wonka, the latest movie inspired by Roald Dahl‘s classic 1964 children’s story “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is, make no mistake about it, a full-on movie musical that I found to be more in the tradition of ’60s-era films like Oliver, Dr. Dolittle, Albert Finney’s Scrooge — basically a throwback to that kind of feel-good musical confection designed to be released during the year’s end.
Timothée Chalamet didn’t realise at the time, but his high school singing performances ended up forming his audition for the lead role of Wonka.
Timothée Chalamet is revealing how his new movie Wonka relates to 1971′s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Timothee Chalamet showed off his one-of-a-kind sense of style while attending the premiere for his new movie Wonka at Cinema UCG Normandie on Friday (December 1) in Paris, France.