{"id":600490,"date":"2026-04-13T04:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600490\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:39:09","slug":"wonka-sequel-targets-august-filming-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600490\/","title":{"rendered":"“Wonka” Sequel Targets August Filming Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n

In 2023, \u201cPaddington\u201d filmmaker Paul King delivered the musical fantasy film \u201cWonka,\u201d a Timothee Chalamet-led prequel to Roald Dahl\u2019s book \u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d and its assorted film adaptations.<\/p>\n

The movie, following Willy Wonka\u2019s early days as a chocolatier while contending with his future rivals, proved a major success and grossed $634.5 million off a $125 million budget. It ultimately was the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2023.<\/p>\n

On top of that, it got generally positive reviews. So it came as little surprise that a follow-up was given the green light shortly after. At last report back in late 2024, King confirmed that the script was being written at the time with the film\u2019s story already in place.<\/p>\n

Nothing further has really come out since then, bar Warner Bros. Pictures setting aside a December 17th 2027 release date for an \u201cuntitled family film release\u201d which industry insiders suspect will be for this sequel.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s looking more and more likely with DanielRPK<\/a> reporting today that production on \u201cWonka 2\u201d is slated to kick off in August. That would likely make it Chalamet\u2019s next film, with the actor having wrapped \u201cDune: Part Three\u201d back in November.<\/p>\n

Warners could well make an announcement about the film at CinemaCon this week, but it\u2019s wait-and-see for now. Chalamet remains linked to the James Mangold-directed MotoGP film \u201cHigh Side,\u201d but no production dates for that have yet been revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Pictures In 2023, \u201cPaddington\u201d filmmaker Paul King delivered the musical fantasy film \u201cWonka,\u201d a Timothee Chalamet-led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[112110,49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-600490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}