Wicked Movie Release Dates Set For Christmas 2024 & 2025
The release dates for the upcoming musical Wicked are pushed back to Christmas 2024 and 2025. Based on the extremely popular musical of the same name, Wicked chronicles the journey of unlikely friendship Glinda and Elphaba, who later become mortal enemies as Glinda the Good Witch and The Wicked Witch of the West in the classic story of The Wizard of Oz. The original 2003 Broadway production was nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and won six including Best Actress for Idina Menzel for her role as Elphaba, as well as Costume and Scenic design.
Jon M. Chu will direct Wicked, following his critically-acclaimed musical In the Heights, a story originally written by Lin Manuel Miranda inspired by his life growing up in the Washington Heights neighborhood in New York. The Color Purple's Tony Award-winning actor Cynthia Erivo was cast as Elphaba and Grammy award-winning singer Ariana Grande has been cast as Glinda. Original cast member Menzel praised the casting decision while Chu later shared that Grande's compelling audition brought him to tears.
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Per Variety, the upcoming musical adaptation Wicked has been split into two parts. The first movie will release on December 25, 2024, with the second one following on December 25, 2025. According to Chu, the decision to split the film led into the decision to delay its release. The director explains that as they entered production with a desire to trim down scenes and cut musical numbers, he found it impossible as certain characters would be compromised. Read what Chu had to say below.
«As we prepared the production over the last year, it became impossible to wrestle the story of ‘Wicked’ into a single
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