Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register.

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 10:33am

From JimHillMedia.com on a Harry Potter/Disney article:

"Now I know (based on reader response to last Friday's "Why For") that a lot of you JHM readers were hoping that this new addition to Islands of Adventure would be tied to the "Wizard of Oz" characters. But -- based on what company insiders told me this weekend -- those L. Frank Baum characters will eventually appear in the stateside Universal theme parks. But only after the movie version of "Wicked" is produced. And given that the Broadway musical version of this Gregory Maguire book is still going strong ... It could be years yet before that movie finally goes into production."

So there WILL be a movie.

EDIT: This is good news that I found because I love Disneyland and this site is very popular with disney folks.

PS: Does anyone have videos from the Japaneese theme park version of Wicked? I had it once, but I lost it.

Updated On: 2/5/07 at 10:33 AM

re: Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:00am

"So there WILL be a movie. This is good news that i find because I love Disneyland."

What does Wicked have to do with Disneyland?

re: Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:01am

That show is at Universal, not Disney

re: Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:02am

your spelling makes me cry

re: Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:02am

can you imagine Wicked characters walking around Universal?

"Hey look mommy, i want to take a picture with the green girl and the one in the wheelchair!"

haha

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:05am

I know, but this site is geared torward Disney, but also general theme-parks.

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:09am

lightguy06222, that reminds me of the time i went to see Wicked and this girl in a wheelchair was getting on the elevator and i hollered out "Oh my god, it's Nessa Rose!" hahaha

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:25am

There won't be a wicked movie at all. Universal got the rights for the book to turn it into a movie but they realized that it would work better as a musical. There is a 30 min version of the musical presented as theme park show that is playing in universal tokyo. And, there is a universal studios singapor sp? in the works and they are trying to get the same show that is playing in tokyo.

I found a video of the universal studios tokyo show. the glinda is played by a japanese girl whereas the elphaba is rotated by either an american actress or an asutrialian sp? actress. I think that universal studios orlando was thinking about bringing the same stage show to that park. However, they realized that the national tour stops nearby orlando sothey saw no reason to do so.

Universal studios Tokyo has a section of the park called The emerled city or oz. I forget which one exactly. But, there they have a wizard of oz atraction and the wicked musical.

"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear" Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 11:55am

I don't think it would work as a movie at all.

#10

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:08pm

Based if only on the fact that it's about the only musical running that could be done in the MOULIN/CHICAGO vein, Universal would have to be dimmer than a 15watt lightbulb *not* to make a film of it. It has a built in audience of both the gayboy Judy Garland fans *and* the family demographic, two very, *very* devoted groups to have for any movie.

Technically, it could be done a la SKY CAPTAIN, all green screen work, and it would succeed beautifully. If Universal doesnt film this, they should fire the leadership there for utter business incompetence.

And this comes from someone who isnt a huge fan of the show but sees the tons of marketability sitting there for it. This is a PR man's dream.

http://docandraider.com

#11

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:09pm

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#12

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:29pm

If you think it'd work, tell me how Defying Gravity would work on screen? It would come off as the cheesiest thing.

#13

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:33pm

John Travolta should play Elphaba.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

#14

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:36pm

WBAF, L-O-L!

"You just can't win. Ever. Look at the bright side, at least you are not stuck in First Wives Club: The Musical. That would really suck. " --Sueleen Gay

#15

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:39pm

I'd imagine Defying Gravity could work a lot better on screen than it does on stage. Maybe on screen she wouldn't fly straight up with the broom in her hand.

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

#16

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:43pm

But imagine Elphaba riding around on her broom singing this song, c'mon, I can't take that seriously.

#17

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 12:47pm

But you take it seriously when the broom flies her arm with her body dangling below it?

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

#18

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 1:06pm

Not only that, but while Universal might have bought the right to the Wicked characters, The Wizard of Oz is firmly in the power of MGM, who is partnered with Disney.

#19

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 1:10pm

Not anymore. Disney and MGM broke of in 2005. Now the park is called Disey Studios and many re-theming and MGM-related things will ber happening well into 2008.

#20

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 1:41pm

I thing logically speaking, Wicked could work as a NON-musical movie, and only then if they went back to the novel

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#21

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 1:43pm

I believe that The Wizard of Oz actually now belongs to Warner Bros.

#22

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 1:46pm

How can a musical film that is mostly based on one of, if not the most succesful MUSICAL films of all times not work? If there is a musical movie that would make sene for everyone to have singing characters is Wicked. Everyone relates Oz to a musical.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

Updated On: 2/5/07 at 01:46 PM

#23

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 1:59pm

Rather than a movie of the musical, I'd much rather see a miniseries based on the book. The book goes much deeper and is so full of history that the musical skips over. They could expand it and include Son of a Witch, too.

They already filmed Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and my hope is that they will film Mirror, Mirror as well.

NYC Visitor and Broadway Fan

#24

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 2:17pm

Yes, but the musical is too popular by now to go that way, and it would be WAY more profitable.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

#25

Maybe Their Will Be A Wicked Movie?

Posted: 2/5/07 at 2:39pm

I said on another thread about this

Universal own the rights to turn Wicked in to a film and they are already looking in to it.

When a director comes in to universal after a succesfull film they are given a sheet of paper with a list of films that are hunting for a director and then they can pick a project.

Wicked has been on this list ever since the london production opened and universal are wanting to have this out by 2008.

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

← Back to Message Board

View all Videos

Tickets From $59

Tickets From $70

Tickets From $71

Tickets From $67