WICKED Film will be split into two movies, releasing Dec 2024 & Dec 2025 — Page 2

TotallyEffed said: "Nolan LuPone said: "TotallyEffed said: "Kad said: "Guess they’re not cutting “Something Bad.”"

They’re actually adding several reprises of it."

Please, tell me you're joking"

They’ve expanded the role of Doctor Dillamond, he is now the narrator, set in the future. Hence the need for two movies.The role will be split between Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. Early reports are suggesting the expanded versions of Something Bad are going to be major Oscar bait for Best Song."

Lol, I was genuinely concerned for a second

There also isn’t enough music for a 4-5hr, two part epic.

Jordan Catalano said: "Jesus. So “Wicked” will now be longer than “Les Mis”."



It is crazy, but it may all be worth it for this comment. Made me spit out my water.

Really bad idea... Or as they'd say in Boston, "Wicked bad!"

Imagine buying half of a musical soundtrack

How would this get nominated, would the talent fyc both years?

how ever they explain it, this makes my head feel funny

Why anyone would trust Chu with their property after what he did to Jem is beyond me

Updated On: 4/26/22 at 12:59 PM

Maybe they'll add a lot of stuff that will be a remake of the Garland film, with all the songs and scenes from that movie tossed in. That way, it will be a double punch of a musical film adaptation we don't need, and a remake we don't need!

Yeah, they're really reaching. And as a fan of Wicked, it doesn't have some big, sweeping story like Les Miz or some big cliff hanger ending to Act 1. You essentially know what's going to happen. If Titanic can be one movie, I think we could stretch Wicked into one. And to someone else's point, most of the extra character's songs are awful, so cut those and condense it.

I'm a HUGE Grande fan, but her casting gives me pause. I hope they keep to the more operatic tone of the show and not have Glinda riffing all over the place.

Kavana said: "Why anyone would trust Chu with their property after what he did to Jem is beyond me"

He... he didn't write it... he made the movie Hasbro wanted him to make.

But that aside, this is gonna be dog ****. Lol. Winnie Holzman and Schwartz have for ages talked about how they're "Working on the script!" For literally a decade. And now we a project that out of nowhere now needs two 2+ hours to accomplish one of the most simplistic commercially successful musical theatre stories in decades? There is no way this doesn't blow up in their faces. Universal really over here trying to outdo Cats... and they can't do it. Surely gonna be a lot more of a financial blunder tho!

Did they honestly think people would be excited by this announcement?

And like pretty much every other movie musical now, I fully expect new material to be incorporated into the stage version.

I thought it was some late April Fool's Day gag at first. I can't imagine anybody going back for the second film a year later.

If this was the first exposure people would have to the property (book), then it could've worked. BUT they're basically splitting a musical in half that has been seen all over the world. The toothpaste is out of the tube.

I really would expect an about-face on this as I haven't seen a positive reaction to it anywhere...except in Chu's head.

I'm cautiously optimistic. Chu did fabulous work with In the Heights and Crazy Rich Asians, so perhaps he'll pull off an epic that incorporates more elements from the book.

Fiddler on the Roof was a real departure from the musical comedy we got in the Robbins production, and Jewison created a masterpiece that was entirely cinematic and rooted in the medium.

We'll see!