You may not have known this, but you won’t be surprised:  There’s a “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” prequel in the works.  There aren’t any plot details yet.  All we know is that it’ll be about Willy Wonka when he was 29 to 35 years old.

Ryan Gosling is reportedly interested in the part.  They did address Wonka’s backstory a little bit in the Tim Burton / Johnny Depp movie in 2005, it’s actually more faithful to the original ROALD DAHL book than Gene Wilder’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.