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“Wonka,” a sugary prequel to Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” delivers not so much a world of pure imagination as a land of constant cuteness. Of course it does. The affable musical film, starring Timothée Chalamet, is directed by Paul King, the King of “Aww”s, who made heart-warming hits out of “Paddington” and “Paddington 2.”
Never mind using “pure imagination”, as the song goes in the original screen version of Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.
Paul King told Radio Times, as reported by the Telegraph, that everything which is consumed in Wonka - which will be released in the UK on December 8 - was edible in real life.
Rutland Youth Theatre is having a sugar rush.
In a whimsy-driven musical, a young chocolatier sets his sights on success in a city governed by morally bankrupt authorities