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Paul Thomas King (born July 1978) is a British writer and director. He works in television, film and theatre, and specialises in comedy. He directed all 20 episodes of the BBC surreal comedy series The Mighty Boosh (2004–2007), and in 2005 he earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for Best New Director.
Paul King nel 2015. Paul Thomas King (Chicago, 29 luglio 1978) è un regista e sceneggiatore britannico. È noto per aver diretto i film Paddington (2014), Paddington 2 (2017) e Wonka (2023).
Paul King. Director: Wonka. Paul King is a writer and director. He works in television, film, and theatre, and specializes in comedy. He graduated from St Catharine's College, Cambridge University with first-class honors in English in 1999.
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Willy Wonka, an aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier, arrives at the Galéries Gourmet with dreams of establishing his own chocolate shop. Burning through his meager savings, Wonka is coerced to stay at Mrs. Scrubitt's boarding house by her henchman Bleacher and, despite orphan Noodle's warning about the small print, signs a contract because...
Timothée Chalamet as Willy Wonka, a young aspiring magician, inventor, and chocolatier with a difficult dream to open his very own chocolate shopKeegan-Michael Key as the chocolate-addicted Chief-of-Policein cahoots with the Chocolate CartelPaterson Joseph as Arthur Slugworth, a corrupt businessman and the leader of the Chocolate Cartel who is later revealed to be Noodle's paternal uncle.Development
In October 2016, Warner Bros. Pictures reacquired the rights to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) character Willy Wonka from Roald Dahl's estate, with a film in development from producers David Heyman and Michael Siegel. The announcement of the project was met with a mostly negative response as it came less than two months following the death of Gene Wilder, who portrayed Willy Wonka in the 1971 film adaptation. The following month, Heyman revealed that the project would not be a t...
Writing
After being approached by Heyman to direct, King felt the urge to revisit Dahl's book and was surprised: "I realised that it's also an amazing emotional masterpiece. I really wasn't expecting that. Or maybe I had forgotten how incredibly touching it is. Poor little Charlie suffers so much. And you're so rooting for him. I found myself in tears at the end of it." While looking through Dahl's archives & unpublished material for research, King found that Dahl had expressed interest in exploring...
Casting
Timothée Chalamet and Tom Holland were the frontrunners for the title role after King joined the project. Donald Glover, Ryan Gosling, and Ezra Miller were previously considered for the role. According to Paul King, "We were pretty open to looking for the right person. But, for me, it really was a list of one." King was impressed with Chalamet's performances in Call Me by Your Name (2017) and Lady Bird (2017). King offered the actor the part with no audition after seeing his high school perfo...
Wonka had special screenings at ShowEast on October 24, 2023, and at the auditorium at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads on November 19. On November 20, the film had a special premiere in Tokyo, with a red carpet attended by director Paul King, producers David Heyman and Alexandra Derbyshire, and stars Timothée Chalamet and Hugh Grant. The film ...
Box office
Wonka grossed $218.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $413.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $632.3 million. Deadline Hollywood calculated the film's net profit as $182million, accounting for production budgets, marketing, talent participations, and other costs; box office grosses and home media revenues placed it sixth on their list of 2023's "Most Valuable Blockbusters". One week before its US theatrical release, Wonkagrossed $43.2 million from 37 countrie...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 82% of 320 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "With director Paul King at the helm and some solid new songs at the ready, the warmly old-fashioned Wonka puts a suitably sweet spin on the classic character while still leaving some room for the source material's darker undertones." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 64 critic...
In a September 2023 interview with Total Film, King expressed interest in making sequels, saying: "Dahl was definitely interested in taking Willy Wonka on. There's drafts that didn't really go anywhere, and there's a short story. He didn't really write sequels, but this was the one book where he clearly felt there was more in the tank there. There'...
Wonka at IMDbWonka at AllMovieWonka at MetacriticWonka è un film del 2023 diretto da Paul King. Il film narra le origini di Willy Wonka, personaggio del romanzo La fabbrica di cioccolato di Roald Dahl, ed è la terza pellicola in live action basata sul libro dopo Willy Wonka e la fabbrica di cioccolato (1971) e La fabbrica di cioccolato (2005).
Paddington 2 is a 2017 live-action animated comedy film directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby. Based on the stories of Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond (to whom the film is also dedicated, Bond having died that year), it is the sequel to Paddington (2014), and is produced by Heyday Films and StudioCanal UK.
Paul King (born 20 November 1960) is a British-Irish singer, musician, VJ and TV presenter. King was the lead singer of the 1980s band King and has released five albums in his musical career.
