Wonka
Wonkawill tell the story of a youthful Willy Wonka ( Timothée Chalamet ) , let in how he met his famous friends the Oompa Loompas , and Hugh Grant ’s Oompa Loompa inWonkacan situate an old Willy Wonka controversy . join the current trend in the film industry of reboots , “ requels ” , and prequels is the musical fantasyWonka , maneuver by Paul King , which serves as a prequel to Roald Dahl ’s 1964 novelCharlie and the Chocolate Factory , which was excellently adapted to the big covert in 1971 with Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka and in 2005 with Johnny Depp as the illustrious ( and eccentric ) chocolatier .
Plot details aboutWonkaare still nameless , but as mentioned above , it will function as a prequel to the novel , following a young Willy Wonka and his dangerous undertaking before he enter the existence ’s most famous and capricious chocolate factory . Wonkawill numeration on the presence of the Oompa Loompas , Wonka ’s firm help at the factory , with Hugh Grant playing the part , and while an official mental image has n’t been discharge , the first footage of the movie shown at CinemaCon includedthe first look at Grant ’s Oompa Loompaand how he cope with Willy Wonka , and the movie seems to be on its way to determine one of the novel ’s biggest disputation : the Oompa Loompas ’ descent tarradiddle .
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Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa In Wonka Can Fix Long-Running Controversies
According to descriptions of theWonkafootage shown at CinemaCon , Grant play the first Oompa Loompa that Chalamet ’s Willy Wonka meet , and he appears trapped in a glass case . AlthoughCharlie and the Chocolate Factoryis a children ’s novel , it has go through various revisal and changes due to anti-Semite and offensive terminology and descriptions in Dahl ’s original novel . At the center of those controversy are the Oompa Loompas , who in the first issue edition were described as Black pygmies who wore “ the usual deerskin slung ” , and the way Wonka brought them to his factory resemble slavery . After a film adaptation of the novel was declare , a assertion from the NAACP was free expressing concern over the portrait of Oompa Loompas , after which Dahl write a retool version in which the Oompa Loompas were described as having “ rosy - bloodless ” tegument and golden dark-brown hair .
In the 1971 movie adaption , the Oompa Loompas were played by actors with dwarfism and were portray as orange - skinned and with green hair , and their mother country was modify to Loompaland . For Tim Burton ’s adaptation , the Oompa Loompa ’s design and narration were changed again , and this time , they were playact by Gurdeep Roy , who was digitally cloned to create all the Oompa Loompas that helped Wonka at the factory , andRoy once sharedthat Burton saw them as being “ purely programmed , like robots ” as all they did was work . Hugh Grant ’s Oompa Loompa is also orange - bark , but in the footage uncover at CinemaCon , he already showed a spate more agency than in late versions , include the single in the novel , showing thatWonkamight be on its path to finally fix the Oompa Loompa ’s long - flow arguing .
Why It Makes Sense For Wonka To Give Oompa Loompas A New Origin Story
AlthoughWonkais a prequel to the novel , it does n’t mean that it has to go on the book ’s biggest problems . As the origin account of Willy Wonka , which was n’t explored in the books , the writers have a fortune of freedom to build his story , which also includes the origins of the Oompa Loompas and how they cope with , so it get sense that their backstory will be retconned and ( hopefully ) fixed . Of naturally , there ’s still a lot more to learn aboutWonka , its story , and its portrait of the Oompa Loompas , but so far , it looks to be on the right caterpillar tread .
