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briankershawjr said: "Personally I think Universal won’t touch it since it’s it biggest movie that year. With Star Wars not doing so hot right now they won’t change anything
With announcements be patient ... the director said in 2016 he set aside 2018 for Wicked... I would say March with Summer taping time"

The Star Wars fan boys may claim they are done with the series, but the fact that The Last Jedi had the best domestic box office of 2017, and the third highest world-wide box office certainly does not point to it doing "not so hot" (especially considering that only accounts for three weeks of release).

JennH said: "briankershawjr said: "Personally I think Universal won’t touch it since it’s it biggest movie that year. With Star Wars not doing so hot right now they won’t change anything
With announcements be patient ... the director said in 2016 he set aside 2018 for Wicked... I would say March with Summer taping time"

I'm a tad confused...won't touch it? Universal has been attached to this since the show began, it was theshow's biggest producer. SW NOT doing so hot? SW has been a huge hit at least financially."

I think briankershawjr meant that Universal won't change the release date. I wouldn't worry about it opening against SW ... in my mind they are two entirely different types of films plus lots of people go to more than one movie over the holidays. As for his comment about SW not doing so hot ... I think he must be basing that comment on the online criticism by fans not being happy with the choices that were made with LJ but the reality is that it was just announced that LJ has passed Beauty and The Beast as the highest grossing domestic release of 2017 and is the 3rd highest globally behind BATB and F8.

Would love to see Lady Gaga as Elphaba, but she may be too old for it at this point.

Yeah...

but they can delay it a year. You are too hung up on release dates to understand the logistics of this situation. The Star Wars film was switched after the director change, not to rival a film that may or may not happen in 2019.

2019 isn't the be all end all.

Again, not true http://variety.com/2017/film/news/star-wars-episode-ix-release-date-jj-abrams-1202555963/

To say Universal would rather have a "major property" for Christmas over the maximum possible box office potential is ridiculous

I could see Wicked moving its release date to Christmas day. I remember Universal did the same thing with Les Miserables as that film was previously set to open up against the first Hobbit film.

"Releasing the film in December, though, will give it an awards season push, most likely for costumes, make-up, score, and possibly original song as most movie musicals create an addition to the soundtrack for the piece."

Elphaba and Galinda are plum parts - I expect they'd want to go for acting categories as well. Let's just hope the screen rewrites don't make one character "supporting" because that would not serve the story well. At least not the story theater-goers have learned to love over last 15 years.

Valentina3 said: ""Releasing the film in December, though, will give it an awards season push, most likely for costumes, make-up, score, and possibly original song as most movie musicals create an addition to the soundtrack for the piece."

Elphaba and Galinda are plum parts - I expect they'd want to go for acting categories as well. Let's just hope the screen rewrites don't make one character "supporting" because that would not serve the story well. At least not the story theater-goers have learned to love over last 15 years."





Let's hope they are really just trying to make a great movie...instead of concerning themselves with possible academy awards.

BroadwayNYC2 said: "Films change release dates all the time, so just because they announced it on Twitter, doesn't mean they "own" the date. Anyone who says Star Wars was a disappointment is nuts, its massive hit. The appeal of Star Wars is much greater than that of Wicked. I don't think they will make that release date anyway."

It’s pretty widely reported that it has disappointed, not that it’s a disappointment. No one would argue that it’s a huge success. But it is dropping faster than the other Star Wars, has far more criticism from fans and barely beat Jumanji this weekend. It seems silly to be talking this way about a billion dollar grossing movie, but people in the industry are taking note