UFC star Conor McGregor to star in upcoming Willy Wonka film
Former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor has landed the lead position in a brand new Willy Wonka film set to his theaters later this yr.
Willy Wonka is a fictional character showing in British writer Roald Dahl’s 1964 kids’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility, its 1972 sequel Charlie and the Nice Glass Elevator and several other movies based mostly on these books. He’s the eccentric founder and proprietor of the Wonka Chocolate Manufacturing facility.
Wonka has been portrayed in movie a number of instances. In 1971, Willy Wonka was portrayed by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufacturing facility. Wilder’s portrayal within the movie is taken into account extensively beloved and considered one of his biggest roles.
Within the Eighties, the movie had skilled a rise in recognition as a result of repeated tv broadcasts; it additionally gained cult standing with a brand new viewers in house video gross sales.
In 2014, the movie was chosen for preservation in america Nationwide Movie Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, traditionally, or aesthetically vital”.
Johnny Depp’s portrayal of the Willy Wonka character in 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing facility polarized critics and audiences. In 2023, Timothée Chalamet portrayed the character in a standalone movie that tells his origin story titled Wonka.
Conor McGregor has not competed contained in the UFC octagon since breaking his leg throughout a trilogy bout with Dustin Poirier in July 2021.
The Irish blended martial artist was set to return to motion in 2024 after teaching reverse Michael Chandler on the Final Fighter, however as soon as once more was injured and pulled from the bout.
In current weeks McGregor visited the White Home the place he spoke with media and U.S President Donald Trump concerning the political local weather in his native nation of Eire. “Mystic Mac” additionally introduced that he intends to run for President of Eire.
