Should Chu Create a 3 Hour 'Director's Cut of Wicked

[Jarethan]

Posted: 12/9/25 at 11:56pm

When I saw the first Wicked movie when it opened, I enjoyed it.  Six months later, I tried to watch it on Amazon, and was bored stiff, turning it off after 45 minutes or so.  When I saw For Good earlier today, much to my surprise I enjoyed it, although I thought both new songs were mediocre.  Interestingly, I was a little restless in the first half, but enjoyed the second half, mediocre Oscar bait or not.  I think the main reason was the evolution of Glinda's character (which I don't remember being as effective in the show, despite seeing it 6 or 7 times) and AG's performance, which I thought was excellent.  CE was fine, but her role just was not as good as in the first half.

So, here's my theory.  IF Chu could go back to the editing room with the goal of dramatically reducing 'the bloat and coming up with a single 3 hour movie, would the result be an improvement over the current output and, more importntly for the money people, could they develop an advertising campaign to incent people to return to the movie houses to see the dramatically shortened version?

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 12/10/25 at 12:06am

Its kind of crazy how you can literally just cut this down for the most part and make it the Broadway show.


They'd never do that because it'd be acknowledging that the movies are too long, and they are.

Updated On: 12/10/25 at 12:06 AM

[Melissa25]

Posted: 12/10/25 at 12:28am

Please God, make it stop.