In the 2023 film Wonka, Timothee Chalamet delivers a fresh interpretation of the classic song Pure Imagination, originally performed by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971).

You may not know the name Leslie Bricusse (pronounced Brick’-us), but you very likely hum some of the songs he’s written: "Pure Imagination,” “What Kind of Fool Am I?,” "Talk to the ...