Hugh Grant has been revealed as taking part in an Oompa-Loompa within the upcoming movie Wonka.
Set for launch later this yr (December 15) through Warner Bros., the long-awaited movie is the third movie adaptation to be fabricated from Roald Dahl’s well-liked youngsters’s e-book Charlie And The Chocolate Manufacturing unit – and can characteristic Timothée Chalamet because the character Willy Wonka.
Now, following the discharge of a brand new trailer at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, it has been revealed that Notting Hill actor Hugh Grant shall be taking part in the function of one among Wonka’s Oompa-Loompas.
Within the prolonged footage, which was proven to exhibitors yesterday (April 15), the fictional candy deal with developer comes throughout the Oompa-Loompa (Grant), who’s trapped in a glass jar, and later hires him to work in his manufacturing unit.
The footage additionally paid homage to Singin’ Within the Rain – exhibiting Chalamet singing, dancing and spinning round a lightweight pole whereas trying to find magical recipes. It additionally supplied the viewers with a glimpse into Olivia Colman’s character as a Cockney innkeeper and Sally Hawkins as Wonka’s mom.
Though specifics in regards to the movie stay sparse, it has been confirmed that Wonka is not going to characteristic Charlie, nor different characters who’re offered with the chance to go to the closely guarded chocolate manufacturing unit. As an alternative, the movie will discover the origin story of Willy Wonka, and happen as he’s about to launch the world-famous location.
This separates it from the 2 earlier movie diversifications – Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Manufacturing unit (1971) and Charlie And The Chocolate Manufacturing unit (2005) – which each adopted the identical narrative as specified by the novel and noticed the character of Wonka performed by Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp respectively.
The movie is directed by Paul King, who additionally labored on the 2014 movie Paddington.
Elsewhere, Hugh Grant has additionally starred in latest blockbuster hits together with Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller and John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves.
Within the latter, the Love Really actor admitted that he misplaced his persistence with “a pleasant native lady” on set. “I misplaced my mood with a girl in my eyeline on day one. I assumed she was some govt from the studio who ought to have identified higher,” he mentioned to Whole Movie (through Yahoo! Leisure). “Then it seems that she’s an especially good native lady who was the chaperone of the younger woman. Horrible.”
Grant, who performed rogue character Forge Fitzwilliam within the fantasy movie, additionally mentioned he had “plenty of grovelling” to do after realising his mistake, and labelled the blunder as doing “a Christian Bale”.
