Wonka
Summary
Wonkadirector Paul King has debunk a rooter theory that Charlie Bucket is in the picture show , and the sequel needs to keep it that way or it ’ll be making a fully grown mistake . Rather than adapting Roald Dahl ’s source textile for the third prison term , Wonkais a prequel fill in Willy Wonka ’s backstory . InCharlie and the Chocolate Factory , Wonka is an ageing , disillusioned burnt umber magnate . InWonka , he ’s just start up out and capture his business off the earth . He ’s young and thirsty , not old and caustic .
A popular fan theory suggested thatCharlie and the Chocolate Factory ’s title character made a cameo appearance inWonkaas a shoeshine . ButWonkais gear up 10 beforeCharlie and the Chocolate Factory . InCharlie and the Chocolate Factory , Wonka is quick to give up his factory . At the end ofWonka , he ’s only just ramp up it . If the shoeshine boy was Charlie , he would n’t find the lucky ticket and take over the manufacturing plant until he was a middle - of age man . Fortunately , King has expose thisWonkatheory – andWonka 2needs to remember it .
It’s A Major Relief That Kid In Wonka Isn’t Charlie Bucket
It ’s a huge relief that the shoeshine inWonkaisn’t Charlie Bucket . That kind of fan servicing is just the worst kind of prequel gimcrackery , like the origin of Han Solo ’s last name . To include Charlie inWonkaas a shoeshine would be so on - the - olfactory organ and would sense so forced . It ’s full thatWonkavery much was n’t doing that . Obviously , Wonkasets some thing up for the former storey , but it stands well apart from theCharlie and the Chocolate Factorystory – and that ’s a salutary matter .
Wonka 2 Needs To Avoid Overdoing Connections To Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Given thatWonkahas been a huge smash hit successat the box office , earn over $ 600 million worldwide , Wonka 2seems inevitable . A sequel toWonkawill naturally move the story a scrap closer to the original movie ’s timeline , althoughthere will still be a comely disruption in which to state new stories before Charlie arrives at Wonka ’s door . Having Charlie show up inWonka 2 , or even Grandpa Joe or one of the other bear out character fromCharlie and the Chocolate Factory , would fall into that same prequelitis problem .
This prequel serial already has Wonka in the lead role , which is enough to satisfy fans of the franchise . Wonka 2can start to construct towards the expansion of the mill and include a few Easter ballock ( literal 1 , even ) , but it want to impinge on the correct balance . Bringing in Charlie and the other grapheme from the original record book in theWonkasequel would skew it too much into just feeling like it ’s setting up that movie or shoehorning them in .
