With its new competitors sequence, The Golden Ticket, Netflix is seeking to enchantment to Willy Wonka and actuality present followers alike.
The truth competitors, which gives the chance to enter “Wonka’s Chocolate Manufacturing unit,” is now open for casting to US residents 18 and older. Join right here to your likelihood to compete within the sequence.
“Solely gamers who discover a coveted golden ticket will acquire entry to the manufacturing facility,” reads the official description. “However a golden ticket doesn’t assure a candy experience as soon as the gates open; solely those that can adapt, strategize, and face up to the unknown will make it via. Set inside a retro-futuristic dreamscape, this high-stakes social experiment will problem gamers not simply bodily, however mentally as they navigate video games, checks, and temptations designed to probe their instincts, resilience, and skill to thrive in chaos.”
The filming location and launch date for The Golden Ticket shall be introduced at a later date.
Information of an upcoming Willy Wonka competitors sequence first broke in Could 2024, when Netflix was mentioned to be taking pitches for concepts.
It’s the newest venture to emerge from the streamer’s acquisition of the Roald Dahl Story Firm in 2021, following the Oscar-winning Wes Anderson brief movie The Great Story of Henry Sugar and Matilda the Musical.
For the contestants’ sake, let’s hope The Golden Ticket seems higher than the notorious bait-and-switch “immersive” Willy Wonka expertise that went viral for all of the improper causes final yr.
The Golden Ticket — an all-new competitors present impressed by the beloved and unpredictable universe of Wonka — is coming to Netflix.
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— Netflix (@netflix) March 20, 2025