WICKED As An Animated Film
WICKED As An Animated Film
Starship
Broadway Star Joined: 7/29/12
#2WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 7:54pm
It was part of the animator's portfolio to get his job.
Hold your horses, BWW, sheesh.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
RW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#3WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 8:03pmThis isn't going to happen. NBC Universal wouldn't give Wicked to Disney, no way.
#4WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 8:05pmAs Kad points out these are just 'suggestive' sketches by a Disney artist. They aren't being presented as anything beyond that.
#5WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 8:10pmDisney had their crack at Wicked. It was called Oz the Great and Powerful. This girl got a job based on her animation skills. Kudos to her.
Formerly gvendo2005
Broadway Legend
joined: 5/1/05
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Broadway Legend
joined: 5/1/05
Blocked: After Eight, suestorm, david_fick, emlodik, lovebwy, Dave28282, joevitus, BorisTomashevsky
#6WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 8:20pm@RW3 They'll try to snatch it from them, that's for sure. They just bought the Indiana Jones franchise, and they recently got their hands on Star Wars. I tell ya', Disney wants to own everything...
#7WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 9:03pmDisney won't ever get its hands on the 1939 Wizard of Oz or on Wicked.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#8WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 9:16pmI'm suprised they haven't got their hands on R&H...
#9WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 11:05pmDisney has its own unique musical identity- and makes a killing on their library.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#10WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/7/13 at 11:34pmAfter seeing a clip from Frozen, I decided that Wicked would be perfect as a Disney animation -- or even a non-Disney animation. Stage fantasies may work better when they're animated for a movie because the theater leaves a lot to the imagination. Once the story moves to live action film, people expect either out-of-this-world special effects or exact translation from the stage, set and all -- perhaps both at the same time. Another advantage of an animated film would be the potential availability of Menzel and Chenoweth, who have gotten too old for the live action roles. I think an animated Wicked could be great.
You alone can make my song take flight.
#11WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 7:44amDisney or not, I think an animated movie is the best way forward for Wicked as a movie
#12WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 1:27pmLooks good. Agree with Princeton Returns and his comments below an animated film would probably do more justice the the show than a traditional movie.
Tom McGovern Jr
#13WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 2:49pmAn animated version of WICKED would be a great idea and they can retain Idina and Kristin to do the voice overs and singing for their animated counterparts. It's a win-win.
#14WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 4:17pmWhat's the appeal of getting Idina and Kristin back, fifteen years later? Their moment has passed and I doubt that some of them would even WANT to return to Wicked after so long. It's not as though the first to play a role has to own the role forever, and with a show that has run so long and launched so many careers, the witches themselves are much more iconic than any performer, even the original Broadway cast, associated with them.
#15WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 4:24pm
darquegk - - - I was only referring to Idina and Kristin providing the talking/singing voices for Elphaba and Glinda if WICKED were made into an animated feature film. The appeal for me, anyway)is that they originated the roles and since the film would be animated the 15 year gap isn't really an issue.
Hope that answered your question.
#17WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 4:53pmThe whole idea is fugly
To seek revenge may lead to hell yet everyone does it but seldom as well......
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#18WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 5:17pm
I watched this a while back, and it actually looks like this storyboard video is based on the same character designs. I personally don't love Wicked, but I think it really would do quite well as an animated feature.
http://youtu.be/XKSlQinKTD8
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#19WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 6:11pmThe thing I think a lot of people do forget about when talking about how this should be animated is how much more would probably be cut if they went with that medium. Very few animated films run much longer than 90 minutes, so that's a pretty big chunk of material to leave out to get it there, or an pretty big extra expense to leave it all in.
#20WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/8/13 at 6:21pm
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=581579055244895&set=a.143657822370356.30079.141613599241445&type=1&theater
Gregory Maguire himself states he knows of no plans for this.
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Updated On: 12/8/13 at 06:21 PM
FlowerChild67
Stand-by Joined: 7/11/12
#21WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/9/13 at 1:02amI don't care that this isn't really happening, but those are gorgeous illustrations, I love them!
Fan123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/30/08
#22WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/9/13 at 4:19am
These are great. If you haven't seen the second half of the images, they're available here:
http://reverianslip.tumblr.com/post/69254710922/old-visual-development-portfolio-based-on-wicked
jonahke
Understudy Joined: 9/25/13
#23WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/9/13 at 5:15am
Heidi Gilbert made 3 years ago a storyboard of Defying Gravity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKSlQinKTD8
EDIT: Sorry, I just saw that this video was already posted here 
Updated On: 12/9/13 at 05:15 AM
Dave19
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/11
#24WICKED As An Animated Film
Posted: 12/9/13 at 6:48am
This is a fabulous idea. Those drawings look great, also the 2nd set.
It's about time people/creatives/theatre-filmmakers widen their horizons. This has never been done before (turning a stage show into an animated film), and Wicked would be the right show to do it with. I also think that with animated films, creatives just held on to traditions for the last 20 years. To me, the idea of a painterly 2d film, with a mature look/story, not too cartoonish, that lasts 2 hours, can turn out to be a piece of art and a triumph of fantasy and beauty.
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