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 ...

In 2005 the film was remade with Johnny Depp in the role of Willy Wonka. In 2016, the story got the Broadway treatment and was adapted for the stage with Christian Borle starring as the ...

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.