Wicked Movie Seeks New Director — Page 7

Her name is Zendaya.

Here she is singing acoustically.

BrodyFosse123 said: "Her name is Zendaya.

Here she is singing acoustically.

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...Why? This is explicitly an adaptation of the musical, not the (substantially different) novels.

ucjrdude902 said: "I've heard whispers that Michelle Pfeiffer has thrown her hat into the ring for Morrible."

How about Michelle Yeoh for Morrible?

Valentina3 said: "Oof. Hard disagree. But at the same time, they are so different than actually comparing them is not really fair to either property."

Gregory Maguire's bank account would say otherwise.

I agree with ALL of this. As much as I enjoy the stage adaptation of Wicked (and I really, really, really do enjoy it), there is no way to ignore the major holes and problems within its book. I also hate that they decided to have Elphaba live at the end of the stage show. Full disclosure: I have attempted to read McGuire's book several times, but can never get through it. Does she survive in the book? It seems like such a cheap attempt for applause (which, to be fair, every time I've seen the show, there is a huge applause).

I hope that the film's director will take what is incredibly charming and touching about the stage version while figure out how to patch up the plot holes and flesh out its many one-dimensional characters.

No, the "happy" ending is purely made for the musical. In the book Elphaba briefly speculates that the Scarecrow could be Fiyero returning to Kiamo Ko in disguise, but that notion is torn to shreds when he empties himself out to hide Dorothy and the Lion when she sends her swarm of bees after them on their way to the castle.

There's just so much that was changed for the musical that I have a hard time picturing them being able to, or even wanting to, bring back too many of the darker or more mature elements from the book for the movie.

Owen22 said: "Valentina3 said: "sparksatmidnight said: "Plus, the books are awful and the show is much, much better than the original source."

Oof. Hard disagree. But at the same time, they are so different than actually comparing them is not really fair to either property."

Well, let's face it. Like a lot of shows, Act Two of Wicked has some problems.

The worst being how they try to shoehorn characters from the original Wizard of Oz, how they thought it was sooooo cute to give the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion trite origin stories (yes, they repeat Maguire's Cowardly Lion story, but the other two ... don't get me started....)

I guess I can sorta kinda buy Boq's transition into the angry Tin Woodsman. Yet, he's a "woodsman" (?) who supposedly has a very, very big heart, not the vigilante he is shown to be in Act Two Wicked.

But Fiyero as the Scarecrow? Like... after he is transformed, why on earth would he join Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road to get a brain when A) there is nothing in Elphaba's spell that says in the transformation he loses his ability to think abstractly. And why would he think that? and B) why would he think that a man he already KNOWS is a humbug can do anything for he or the little girl he's accompanying? He would immediately head the other way to Winkie country to be with Elphaba!

Let's hope the movie version will straighten all THAT out too."

In regards to Fiyero becoming the Scarecrow, I always attributed it to Elphaba singing “Though they beat him, let him feel no pain” in No Good Deed. We feel pain because of our nervous system. Without a brain, we’d feel no pain. Thus, Fiyero becomes the Scarecrow.

As for joining Dorothy, I always just thought he was playing along in order to protect himself and Elphaba.

JBroadway said: "You never heard about the Great Ozian Crosstown Express Rope? Clearly a fake fan!"

I guess they really all can’t come and go by bubble!

I wonder how different the film will be from the stage version.