Wonka Director Breaks Down Exactly How The Film Channels Gene Wilder’s Original

Timothée Chalamet in mid-daydream in Wonka, and Gene Wilder resting his head on his fist in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, pictured side by side.

Warning: some light SPOILERS for Wonka are in play. If you haven’t experienced the delights this film has to offer just yet, you’ve been warned. 

The world of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is something that we’ve now seen cinema tackle in two very different contexts. With Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the man tried to offer us a vision closer to that of the text from Roald Dahl, and with a more modern flair.