The new Willy Wonka film is said to not to be an adaptation of one of Dahl’s two books featuring the character, but a standalone film focused on Wonka’s early adventures.
The original Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder, who played the character in the 1971 adaptation, died in August at age 83 from complications from Alzheimer’s.
A new film is being planned around the character of Willy Wonka, the eccentric chocolatier at the center of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.
The revival is being brought to the screen by Harry Potter producer David Heyman, according to Variety.