In Wonka, Timothée Chalamet impersonates the eccentric chocolatier created by Roald Dahl, raising the question of whether the movie is based on one of Dahl's books or provides a new take on the character. Wonka is set to be a spin-off prequel focused on the wildly popular character from Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory novel. The trailer has already shown that the film will evoke the iconography of the novel's first movie adaptation, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) which starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka.

As a story derived from an already existing work of fiction, Timothée Chalamet's Wonka inevitably draws inquiries related to how much the film relies upon its source material, Dahl's children's books, from a narrative standpoint. The trailer for Wonka shows that the film will revolve around the first steps of a young, ingenious Willy Wonka into the confectionery industry, offering a look...