Universal's WICKED Films - News & Discussion Thread- Page 114

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 9/26/25 at 2:48pm

Personally found the side characters to be pretty annoying. Will be annoyed if they are shoehorned in more just cause. Why are we talking about an "expanded wicked universe" like there's gonna be a third film?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/26/25 at 2:55pm

FWIW, I too found them annoying and unnecessary. It’s not like they ruined the movie for me or anything, but much like Keala Settle’s role, I just thought “why…?”

Updated On: 9/26/25 at 02:55 PM

[HBP]

Posted: 9/26/25 at 8:05pm

I thought Bowen’s lines and delivery were some of the funniest in the movie. 

[MagicalMusical]

Posted: 9/27/25 at 12:22am

AEA AGMA SM said: "In the novel Munchkinland has seceded from Oz, and the shoes have become a symbol of Nessa's leadership as the head of the Free State of Munchkinland. Glinda gives them to Dorothy because she feared that their power, and the fight to get control of them, would ignite a civil war within Munchkinland."

Oh, thank you so much! I just wonder further, so were the shoes a symbol of unwanted leadership of a free state? Like a free state would have a different way of appointing a leader? Or was it just desiring power that could lead to fighting and a civil war?

It is also kinda weird Glinda made them so powerful, beyond merely allowing one to...what did they do for Nessa? Wasn't it just the feeling of "ghost arms"? But the book said magic was kind of an unwieldy thing, right? So maybe the power to travel anywhere would cause fighting? Why didn't Nessa use them to travel anywhere?

Updated On: 9/27/25 at 12:22 AM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 9/27/25 at 6:47am

HBP said: "I thought Bowen’s lines and delivery were some of the funniest in the movie."

Though he had scripted dialogue, Jon Chu ended up using his improvised alternate takes in the finished film.  

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 9/27/25 at 7:23am

John Adams said: "darquegk said: "The thing I need to see explained more is the timeline. The stage show is extremely vague on whether it's days, weeks or many years that pass between the end of Act 1 and the start of Act 2."

It helps to be familiar with Maguire's book. According to the book, it's about 5 years.

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Except that in the book Elphaba does actually melt. Not sure the book is a reliable guide. 

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 9/27/25 at 9:22am

There’s also the fact that the events of the book that Act 2 used span about 14 or 15 years. Elphaba and Fiyero reconnect about 5 years after she and Glinda meet the Wizard. After he is attacked she spends 7 years in the mauntery before setting out for Kiamo Ko to try to seek forgiveness from his wife and family. She then spends roughly another 7 years there before the tornado and arrival of Dorothy into Oz.