The film will update and improve upon Wonka’s relationship with the Oompa-Loompas to look less like slavery.
Wonka will likely pay them, either with money or cocoa beans, as in the Tim Burton film.- Confirmed! The film ends with Willy hearing how terrible Lofty's life is on Loompaland and offering him a job as a taste tester.
The film will end years in the future with Wonka placing the golden tickets in the chocolate bars.
- Jossed.
This film could be an alternate continuity with the little girl becoming Wonka's heir instead of Charlie.
Kind of. It is an Alternate Continuity, but Noodle has no connection to Charlie and is just Wonka's friend.Charlie, or at least a member of the Bucket family, will appear.
Not in a major role, but maybe a passerby is addressed as "Mr./Mrs. Bucket" or a parent will see their son looking at Willy and say "Come along, Charlie."- The movie takes place before Charlie was born.
- On that note, we instead might see a younger Joe Bucket apply for a job at Wonka's chocolate shop
- Jossed. There's not a single mention to the Bucket family.
Mr. Salt's Nut company will appear as an associate for the Chocolate Cartel.
- Jossed.
Slugworth is the leader of the Chocolate Cartel.
There's a reason he's described as Wonka's biggest competitor in the 1971 movie.- Kind of. While he does seem to be the one coming up with ideas unlike the other two and is the most antagonistic to Wonka, they're all equal partners.
Wilbur Wonka will appear.
There'll be a scene with the first time Willy poses for a newspaper picture and it'll cut to Wilbur placing the story on his wall.- It's pretty doubtful given this movie is ostensibly a prequel to the 1971 version rather than the 2005 one.
- It's actually an Alternate Continuity to both, so Wilbur doesn't appear though Wonka's mum makes an appearance.
The film is a tragedy as well as a comedy.
By the end of the film Willy Wonka will have gained the success he wanted to as chocolatier but will have lost all personal connection in his life and will become the reclusive egomaniacal weirdo that Wonka is in the films as a result.- Jossed. The film is a case of Earn Your Happy Ending, with Wonka becoming successful while still seemingly having close friends. In fact, it appears that he won't become a recluse since his rivals were all arrested, meaning they couldn't have sent spies like in the book.
The villains will face the same consequences as the Four Bratty Kids.
One of them will be sent up a tube
The other will be inflated
The third will be sent down a garbage chute
And the final one will be shrunk to a small size.
- Jossed. They simply get arrested.
The movie will finally explore Loompaland in greater detail...
...and we'll finally, FINALLY get a concrete look at Hornsnogglers, Snozzwangers, and those terrible wicked Whangdoodles.
The threat they represent will likely provide incentive for convincing the Oompa-Loompas to work for Wonka.
- But what about the vermicious knids???
- Sequel.
- Jossed. We do see Loompaland but it's only a short scene, and there's no wildlife shown.
The sequel will be a straightforward adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The lesser-known sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator could also be adapted as well.
- Such a sequel could even basically tell the tale from Wonka's perspective rather than Charlie's, looking at how he decided to set up the contest of the Golden Tickets and leading up to the day of the visit.
Other sequel predictions
- Wonka will be shown running his factory, and we'll get to see the early days of his business.
- Noodle will return; she'll be older and working as Wonka's assistant.
- We'll get to see how Wonka hired the other Oompa Loompas.
- Slugworth will return as a villain.
Noodle will eventually take over Slugworth's and try to steal Wonka's secrets
She IS the only living heir, and it'd explain why he drifted apart from his friends AND why the corporate theft would hit him so hard as to make him a recluse never interacting with people.Willy is still on the path to being a recluse with an edge to him
Despite all the indicators that he won't end up that way, he will. Even if they never come down, the Chocolate Cartel will turn out to all have heirs who'll succeed them and use spies to mess with Wonka's business. He'll keep in touch with his friends as long as he can be, but the older ones will eventually die and Noodle will ultimately become a librarian or a novelist, resulting in them drifting apart. But it's less that everything goes to shit and more that things change over time, and Wonka will actually do the Golden Ticket scheme knowing that it'll be a good way to keep himself from losing himself to bitterness.Willy is NOT about to become the darker version of himself that we know from the other adaptations
The movie deviates from some of the common plot points that we know from other versions of the story (such as how he met the oompa loompas, what his competitors did & what happened to them), and his characterization does seem to imply that he's not that kind of person, so there isn't really a reason for him, in the world of this movie, to not keep having unrelated adventures as a kind and decent guy and never get to the point where he does the darker/more morally dubious things we saw other versions of him doing.Slugworth is the father of the character impersonated by Wilkinson in the 1971 movie
At some point, Slugworth sired a son who was named after him.Junior's efforts to drive Wonka out of business aren't only out of corporate greed. It's a vendetta because he doesn't believe the things his father was accused of doing.Wilkinson avoided mentioning "Junior" when introducing himself as "Arthur Slugworth" as some sort of protection if Junior finds out about the scheme and presses charges.