Idea: A version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where the four bad children are just too good at their respective childhood sins to fall into the deathtraps that Wonka lays for them.
Augustus Gloop isn’t a mere glutton, he’s a gourmet. He ignores the waterfall and gorges himself on the garden, and with each plant he mentions a way to improve it’s flavor in interesting and innovative ways. To Wonka’s aggravation, they’re all good ideas.
Veruca Salt claws her way up the garbage shoot, fingernails broken and arms bleeding. Traps like this aren’t enough to get in the way of her getting what she wants. (She spends the rest of the movie carrying a golden goose.)
Violet Beauregard knows chewing gum. And she can smell a trap for a chewing gum enthusiast a mile away. She drags Wonka’s dislike of chewing gum out of him and tells him that it’s okay to like things and if he doesn’t like gum he could just not make it.
Mike Teevee, Social Media Personality, just refuses to accept being shrunk. He’s huge in New York! He’s huge in Tokyo! He’s huge on Youtube! He started out small and he built his way up to being big, and he’s not gonna let stupid magic bullshit like this stop him from being HUUUUUUGGE! So he’s eight foot tall now.
So when Wonka offers Charlie the factory, he demands that his new friends come along as well- the sins of childhood are only sins from the perspective of adults; in a grown-up they’re virtues.
