The famous fictional chocolatier has previously been portrayed onscreen by Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp Helen Murphy is a former news writer at PEOPLE. She left PEOPLE in 2020. Willy Wonka could ...

Timothee Chalamet follows in the footsteps of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp to play Willy Wonka in a new prequel film that looks at how Roald Dahl’s fictional character came to love chocolate.