But again, there’s been so many different versions of Willy Wonka, be it on Broadway, opera, a pinball machine … you can’t kill the Willy Wonka story,” he added.
The additional new suggestion is that the movie really wants Olivia Colman as the villain, but there has been no confirmation whether she has been formally offered the part.
In addition, if Olivia Colman does take a villainous role, then maybe her character could the reason Wonka is so unwilling to trust people with his factory in the future and is pretty much a recluse.
With pre-production well under way on Wonka, the prequel movie to Roald Dahl’s Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, we are learning new things about the upcoming look at the early life of factory owner Willy Wonka on a regular basis.