Wicked will now be two movies, so here are some ideas for the sequel’s title
Much like Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Dune, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, the upcoming Wicked movie will now be broken into two Wicked movies. Director Jon M. Chu posted an announcement on Twitter, explaining the reasoning behind his decision.
“As we prepared the production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of Wicked into a single film without doing some real damage to it,” he wrote in the full letter. For the record, the full Wicked stage production clocks in at around 2 hours and 45 minutes.
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The upcoming movie — well, movies now— star Ariana Grande as Glinda the Good Witch and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West. Splitting the movie into two parts naturally prompts a lot of questions about the creative vision.
Where will they cut it? Will they introduce elements of the books into the movie version? Add new songs to qualify for Oscar nominations? But most importantly — what will they name it? Below, the Polygon staff offer up some ideas for what a possible Wicked sequel could be titled. Jon M. Chu, please feel free to use these ideas if you are inspired.
Wicked and the yet-unnamed part two will hit theaters December 2024 and 2025 respectively.
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