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 ...

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 ...

The film, which stars Johnny Depp as the iconic candymaker Willy Wonka, was a box office success, grossing over $475 million worldwide. The picture reignited the world's love for all things Wonka ...

In 1971, Gene Wilder took on the role of Willy Wonka and Johnny Depp staged the beloved character in 2005. More recently, in 2023, Timothée Chalamet took on the leading role.

Netflix is producing a new reality competition series based on Roald Dahl's popular character, Willy Wonka from 'Charlie and ...

Before he ruled the ’90s with rubber-faced mayhem, Jim Carrey watched Johnny Depp swipe some of the juiciest roles right out from under him.

Bollywood actor Ishaan Khatter cosplayed as Willy Wonka for a Halloween party hosted by the makers of Phone Bhoot. Fans think that Ishaan did a better job than Johnny Depp who actually starred in ...

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton team up once more for an update of Roald Dahl's wonderfully wicked tale of greedy kids and an oddball sweet-maker named Willy Wonka. We ...

As per the series' description, a group of lucky contestants will have the chance to enter Willy ... in 2023's Wonka, and was of course memorably played by Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp in the ...