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Trailer: If “Barbie” Doesn’t Work Out, Timothy Chalamet as Willy “Wonka” Will Save Warner Bros. This Christmas

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The trailer for “Wonka” is so good you barely need to see the movie.

But the remake of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” coming this fall from Warner Bros. looks like it’s going to be HUGE.

Timothy Chalamet plays the Gene Wilder role, and this will be his franchise. Hugh Grant steals the trailer (wait til you see). They’ll get three movies out of this IP. Paul King, who directed the charming “Paddington,” is helming. The trailer doesn’t indicate it but there’s music, also. Chalamet will sing “Pure Imagination.” He’s going to rocket to the top.

Nice because now Timmy will eat chocolate instead of people, as he did in “Bones and All.”

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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