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‘Wonka’ Production Designer On Building a Whimsical City Based on Nostalgia: ‘You Can Connect With an Audience That Way’
16.12.2023 - 19:17 / variety.com
Jaden Thompson Four-time Academy Award nominee Nathan Crowley grew up in England with his mother reading Roald Dahl stories to him. So he reached a full circle moment when, decades later, he was asked to serve as the production designer on Paul King’s “Wonka,” which offers a heartwarming origin story for Dahl’s iconic chocolatier. “Obviously, the film when I was a young kid was unbelievable — Gene Wilder!” Crowley tells Variety.
“How old was I, seven? It was just magic. It was part of my youth. So to get to do a ‘Wonka’ film, why wouldn’t you do that?” In “Wonka,” the eccentric candymaker is not yet the jaded success story audiences know from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” in which he teaches brutal lessons to spoiled children.
Willy (Timothée Chalamet) is just starting his career and has the singular goal of realizing his childhood dream of making and sharing chocolate with the world — an aspiration he expressed to his mother before she died. In conversation with Variety, Crowley breaks down the complex production design process, in which he and his team conceptualized and executed the vision for the film’s whimsical, magical settings — most of which involved limited VFX. From a chocolate shop with giant sculpted plants to a quaint town square amalgamating various European cities, “Wonka”’s visual landscape embodies the distinct charm of a comforting holiday classic.
While King, Crowley and his team would typically wander locations in pursuit of inspiration, the scouting process commenced during Covid-19 lockdown — so they turned to Google to virtually explore European locales. However, they didn’t settle on any particular city where the story should unfold. “You conclude that you kind of want to build your own
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