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Feb 13, 2024 · Wicked's Marc Platt explains why the movie was divided into two films. MovieWeb. ... fans now have their first look at the big-screen ... and the differences that we have actually make us really ...
- Steven Thrash
- Cynthia Erivo
- Jon M. Chu
- Senior Staff Writer
Jan 4, 2024 · A trailer for Players was released on January 12th, 2024. News of production began with a Tom Ellis Instagram post on July 19th, 2021, announcing his excitement to film in NYC. Official filming started on July 26th, 2021, and wrapped around September 10th, 2021. The budget for the movie is reportedly somewhere between $ 10M and $20M.
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Jul 24, 2024 · Produced by Marc Platt and David Stone (of the Broadway musical). Universal Pictures will debut Chu's Wicked in theaters starting November 22nd, 2024 during Thanksgiving later this year.
Feb 12, 2024 · Summary. Producer Marc Platt defends the decision to split Wicked into two parts, aiming to satisfy fans of the musical and avoid cutting songs. Wicked: Part One trailer has been released, but doesn't mention the two-part structure. Wicked: Part Two is set for release in 2025, arriving close to exactly one year after the first film.
- Jon M. Chu
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- Cynthia Erivo
- Jon M. Chu's musical adaptation becomes a pair of adaptations.
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By Mike Williams
Updated: Apr 27, 2022 8:05 am
Posted: Apr 27, 2022 8:04 am
If you were really looking forward to the upcoming Wicked film adaptation from Universal Pictures, there will soon be more to love. Director Jon M. Chu announced on Twitter that Wicked is actually going to be two films. The first Wicked film is coming on December 25, 2024, and the second comes a year later on December 25, 2025.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are starring in both films as Glinda and Elphaba, who the Wizard of Oz fans will know as Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West. Wicked is a prequel to the Wizard of Oz, showing the friendship between the pair of witches and detailing how one became the Wicked Witch.
The film is based on the Tony-Award winning Broadway musical, which itself is an adaptation of an earlier novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
"As we prepared the production over the last year, it became impossible to wrestle the story of ‘Wicked’ into a single film without doing some real damage to it,” Chu said in his tweet. "As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel like fatal compromises to the source material that has entertained us all for so many years. We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one Wicked movie but two! With more space, we can tell the story of Wicked as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys for these beloved characters."
The script for Wicked is being written by Winnie Holzman. Stephen Schwartz, who wrote the songs for the original Broadway show, is also on hand to handle the screenplay. Likewise, film and stage producer Marc Platt, who produced the stage play, returns to produce the film. Platt recently produced Dear Evan Hansen, another stage musical adaptation that starred his son, actor and singer Ben Platt.
Wicked is Chu's follow-up film to 2021's In The Heights, which was yet another adaptation of a stage musical. That film premiered HBO Max to great reviews, but poor audience numbers on the service. Still, it remained one of our favorite films of 2021, even is it was yet another example of a popular stage musical failing to find a big screen audience.
Mike Williams is a freelance writer at IGN.
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