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American actor Timothée Chalamet will play the magical character created by writer Roald Dahl, Willy Wonka, in a prequel that will be filled with music and dance.

“Wonka” will be a musical that will serve as a prequel to Roald Dahl’s 1964 novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and will reportedly be based on the early life of the eccentric chocolatier.

Willy Wonka, decked out in fanciful top hat, bow tie and purple suit, hobbles out of his chocolate factory with a cane — a once-mythical man now reduced to a mere mortal. Then he falls forward, crumbling like a discarded napkin before the hushed audience. But it's a trick: The candy magnate rolls on the red carpet and leaps to his feet with a showman's zest — yet another crowd-pleasing moment for the marketing maestro. That classic scene encapsulates the deceptive atmosphere of 1971's Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, director Mel Stuart's movie musical adaptation of the similarly ti...

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