The actor, who plays a young Willy Wonka in 'Wonka,' gave props to both Johnny Depp and Gene Wilder for their previous turns as the candymaker Timothée Chalamet set out to make Willy Wonka his own.

Peter Ostrum as Charlie Bucket in a scene from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Wolper/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock Jeff Gaspin, the vice president of unscripted at Netflix, shared a ...

From Gene Wilder to Timothée Chalamet, take a look back at all of the actors who played the iconic character Alexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The world of Willy Wonka and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, however, opens a whole new universe of IP to Netflix viewers.

Netflix has confirmed a Willy Wonka TV show, but it isn’t what some fans might have been expecting. Titled The Golden Ticket, the project is a competition series in which people will attempt to ...

The "high-stakes social experiment" will see its candy-loving contestants fight for a chance to enter Wonka's chocolate kingdom.

The Golden Ticket will see contestants living in the 1964 novel's titular chocolate factory as guests of Willy Wonka to compete in a "high-stakes social experiment." "Players will have to adapt ...

Per the logline, lucky contestants will have the chance to enter Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, but there’s a catch—only players who find a coveted golden ticket will gain entry to the factory ...