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Wonka is a 2023 musical fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Paul King, who co-wrote the screenplay with Simon Farnaby based on a story by King. It tells the origin story of Willy Wonka, a central character in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, depicting his early days as a chocolatier. The film stars Timothée Chalamet as the title character, with an ensemble cast including Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Grant. Development began when Warner Bros. Pictures reacquired the rights to the character in October 2016 and announced that the film would be an origin story. The film tells an original story and was developed by King to exist as a "companion piece" to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory by reprising some of the music, thematic elements, and the visual design of the Oompa Loompas. In May 2021, Chalamet was confirmed to portray Wonka, and the supporting cast was announced in September of that year. Filming began in the United Kingdom in September, at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, in Watford, as well as Oxford, Lyme Regis, Bath, St Albans, and at the Rivoli Ballroom in Crofton Park, London. The film's original songs were written by Neil Hannon, and its original score by Joby Talbot. The film explores the themes of classicism, capitalism, social commentary, innovation, determination, prejudice and discrimination. Wonka premiered in London at the Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre on November 28, 2023, and was released in the United Kingdom on December 8 and in the United States on December 15 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised Chalamet's performance, the music and visuals, and was a commercial success, grossing $632 million worldwide against a $125 million budget to become the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2023. It received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film, and Chalamet was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Plot Willy Wonka, an aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier, arrives at the Galéries Gourmet with dreams of establishing his own chocolate shop. Burning through his meager savings, Wonka is coerced to stay at Mrs. Scrubitt's boarding house by her henchman Bleacher and, despite orphan Noodle's warning about the small print, signs a contract because he is illiterate. He introduces "hoverchocs", chocolates that make people fly, but rival chocolatiers Arthur Slugworth, Gerald Prodnose, and Felix Fickelgruber have his earnings confiscated by the Chief of Police for selling without a store. Unable to pay the contract's exorbitant fees, Wonka is captured and forced to work in Scrubbitt's launderette alongside Noodle and fellow captives Abacus Crunch, Piper Benz, Larry Chucklesworth, and Lottie Bell. Revealing that his passion for chocolate stems from his late mother, Wonka believes that his creations are being stolen by an enigmatic little orange man, and Noodle agrees to teach him how to read. Meanwhile, Slugworth and the "Chocolate Cartel", threatened by Wonka's better and more affordable chocolate, bribe the sweet-toothed Chief to intimidate Wonka. To produce his signature chocolate, Wonka and Noodle sneak into the zoo to milk Abigail the giraffe, inspiring a romance between Scrubbitt and Bleacher as a distraction. 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. The persistent thief of Wonka's chocolates is unmasked as an Oompa Loompa named Lofty, who seeks retribution for the cocoa beans Wonka took from Loompaland under his watch. Wonka captures Lofty, but Lofty dupes Wonka into freeing him; he strikes Wonka with a frying pan before escaping with a jar of chocolates. Wonka opens his dream chocolate store. Unable to arrest him now that he has a legitimate shop, the Cartel turns to Scrubitt, who sabotages Wonka's chocolates with Yeti sweat. Chaos ensues among Wonka's customers, leading to the destruction of his store. 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. Using Abigail as a distraction, Wonka and Noodle infiltrate the Cartel's headquarters, only to be confronted by the Cartel at gunpoint. Slugworth explains that after the death of Noodle's father, his own brother Zebedee, he lied to her mother Dorothy Smith that Noodle died as well, but gave the child to Scrubitt to eliminate her claim to the family fortune. Held at gunpoint and locked in the Cartel's vault of liquid chocolate, Wonka and Noodle nearly drown, but Lofty, still seeking reimbursement from Wonka, rescues them. Wonka and Noodle expose the Cartel's misdeeds, releasing their chocolate reserves into the city fountain, now laced with Wonka's unique ingredients, ruining the Cartel's enterprise. As the Cartel float away and the Chief is arrested, the public revels in Wonka's chocolate. Wonka unwraps his mother's last chocolate bar, discovering a message that reads: "The secret is it's not the chocolate that matters, but the people you share it with." Splitting the bar with his new friends, Wonka reunites Noodle with her own mother. Wonka then settles his debt with Lofty, and purchases an abandoned castle to transform into his own chocolate factory, with Lofty as his tasting chef. Wonka's friends happily return to their old lives while Scrubitt and Bleacher are arrested. Cast Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka, a young aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier with a difficult dream to open his very own chocolate shop Colin O'Brien as 10-year-old Willy Wonka Calah Lane as Noodle, an orphan who becomes Wonka's assistant Keegan-Michael Key as the chocolate-addicted Chief-of-Police in cahoots with the Chocolate Cartel Paterson Joseph as Arthur Slugworth, a corrupt businessman and the leader of the Chocolate Cartel who is later revealed to be Noodle's paternal uncle. Matt Lucas as Gerald Prodnose, a corrupt businessman and member of the Chocolate Cartel Mathew Baynton as Felix Fickelgruber, a corrupt businessman and member of the Chocolate Cartel Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Wonka, Willy Wonka's late mother Rowan Atkinson as Father Julius, a corrupt chocolate-addicted cleric in league with The Chocolate Cartel Jim Carter as Abacus .... Discover the Mathew Clayton Anthony Atkinson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mathew Clayton Anthony Atkinson books.