{"id":586322,"date":"2026-08-07T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586322\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:08:08","slug":"wonka-2-delayed-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586322\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonka 2 delayed indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Bucket\u2019s lazy, bedridden grandparents have been given more permission to stay put. Joining Barbie 2 on Warner Bros.\u2019 island of misfit sequels, Wonka 2<\/a> has been \u201cdelayed indefinitely,\u201d screenwriter Simon Farnaby tells Variety<\/a>. The 2023 blockbuster, which finally answered how Willy Wonka went from small-business owner to well-to-do Oompa Loompa slave owner, earned $634 million worldwide and was earmarked for a sequel. However, clogging the development tube like a glutinous Gloop, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet has been especially difficult to schedule in his post-Complete Unknown pursuit of greatness. Farnaby, whose latest critical darling, The Magic Faraway Tree, opens later this month, insists that Chalamet would like to throw on the child-torturing top hat again but \u201che\u2019s not sure about timing or what he wants to do next.\u201d After Dune: Part Three, the only announced project on Chalamet\u2019s slate is Illumination\u2019s animated sci-fi adventure, Not Alone. As of last March, Chalamet is also developing Playground<\/a>, based on the best-selling book about coming of age in the AI age.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wonka is yet another sequel to a 2023 blockbuster that Warner Bros. can\u2019t get off the ground. Earlier this week, reports of stinginess on the studio\u2019s part have held up a deal for Barbie 2<\/a>, and if that isn\u2019t settled soon, the rights will revert to Mattel, which will have to start from scratch with a plastic mold sans Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie, and Ryan Gosling. Meanwhile, in yesterday\u2019s shareholder earnings call, CEO David Zaslav tried to quell concerns over WB\u2019s disappointing 2026 with a desperate, \u201cWe do have Cat In The Hat coming.\u201d<\/a> And, to be fair, cats in hats\u2014and a distinctive stovetop hat, no less\u2014tend to make an ungodly amount of money, which will have to tide investors over until Jim Carrey\u2019s The Jetsons hits theaters<\/a>. Still, the studio might want to get Wonka 2 out there before Chalamet gets any older and the studio replaces him with Netflix\u2019s AI Gene Wilder<\/a> bot, the perfect, non-union host for the streamer\u2019s Willy Wonka game show.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Bucket\u2019s lazy, bedridden grandparents have been given more permission to stay put. Joining Barbie 2 on Warner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-586322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}