Musical Broadway musical hit 'Wicked' to the big screen

[ThePowerCosmic]

 

[Drizzle]

Don't forget the sequel next year!

 

[Silvermoth]

Just watch that show with Matt Bomer.

IJBOL like I missed that

 

[Sawyer]

lol

 

[DarthSkywalker]

lol

Against my better judgement, I'm excited for this. But this is just laughable. Going to feel like a Disney musical with the space between songs, unless they added a bunch of new ones. Hoping for more book stuff then.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[DarkKnight88]

lol

I’m not the audience for this, and the only John M Chu film I’ve enjoyed is In the Heights, but I’m glad the musical theatre community is getting their version of the Hobbit trilogy lol

 

[Sawyer]

Oh no, I’m…

 

[Lily Adler]

Oh no, I’m…

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Spider-Fan]

There is no good reason this is 2hr and 40mins. Especially if it's being cut into 2 parts. This tells me it's going to be very padded like The Hobbit films were

 

[Drizzle]

Someone on Twitter theorized that they might try and adapt The Wizard of Oz into Part 2 if Part 1 is this long. I'm not that familiar with Wicked other than a few of the songs but how long before The Wizard of Oz is this supposed to take place?

 

[Snow Queen]

Any minute now, they're gonna announce part 2 will be split into two parts as well.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Someone on Twitter theorized that they might try and adapt The Wizard of Oz into Part 2 if Part 1 is this long. I'm not that familiar with Wicked other than a few of the songs but how long before The Wizard of Oz is this supposed to take place?

Possibly, but I still say that's padding it out. The Hobbit did this by adding bit of the Simarillion and various other parts of Middle Earth stuff into it. So I don't view this favorably at all

 

[DarkKnight88]

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Someone on Twitter theorized that they might try and adapt The Wizard of Oz into Part 2 if Part 1 is this long. I'm not that familiar with Wicked other than a few of the songs but how long before The Wizard of Oz is this supposed to take place?

Then whoever theorized that's an idiot who could've done a simple Wikipedia search. Allow me to elaborate since it involves spoilers:

Spoiler

"Defying Gravity" is the big end song of Act 1 of the show with Elphaba flying off part of that, so they've been flaunting the ending of Part 1 in the trailers. The second half of Act 2 of the Broadway show dovetails into the events of The Wizard of Oz, with Nessarose getting killed by Dorothy's house landing on her and Elphaba turning "fully evil" because of that. However, aside from the confrontation in Munchkinland and Dorothy getting captured/the bucket incident, most of TWOO happens in the background as we focus on Galinda, Elphaba, the Wizard and Fiyero (who's now The Scarecrow by this point, long story) and happens pretty quickly. The "bring her to me" scene from the Super Bowl teaser and the glimpses of Dorothy and company are all actually from next year's movie. Betting we'll get a teaser trailer at the end of this movie.

 

[Lily Adler]

Someone on Twitter theorized that they might try and adapt The Wizard of Oz into Part 2 if Part 1 is this long. I'm not that familiar with Wicked other than a few of the songs but how long before The Wizard of Oz is this supposed to take place?

I can totally see them making Part 2 into a pseudo-remake.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

I can totally see them making Part 2 into a pseudo-remake.

Not quite. See my above post please. I've seen the show and have the script book even.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Not quite. See my above post please. I've seen the show and have the script book even.

Many people have seen Wicked. It's not abnormal to have seen the extremely popular musical.

What people are saying, and I tend to think there is some merit, is there is going to be more of Wizard of Oz in Part 2, then there usually is in the second act of Wicked. Because both movies are likely to be over two hours. And part 1 is already longer then the stage play. I'm sure there will be a lot of original material, hopefully some stuff mined from the book, but considering we are talking about a film musical, there is one extremely popular musical that would play right into this one. And the second act of the play already functions as a bit of a remake of the Wizard of Oz.

 

[Ninjablade]

Ahh, the pain of having to see the beautiful imagery of The Wizard of Oz through the disgusting grey sludge lens of modern filmmaking. Can't wait for that padded nonsense!

 

[Lily Adler]

Ahh, the pain of having to see the beautiful imagery of The Wizard of Oz through the disgusting grey sludge lens of modern filmmaking. Can't wait for that padded nonsense!

Which studio is attempting an actual remake again? You know the one where Dorothy is from Inglewood, California in the projects instead of Kansas?

 

[Drizzle]

Ahh, the pain of having to see the beautiful imagery of The Wizard of Oz through the disgusting grey sludge lens of modern filmmaking. Can't wait for that padded nonsense!

It's just not the same without the asbestos.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Many people have seen Wicked. It's not abnormal to have seen the extremely popular musical.

What people are saying, and I tend to think there is some merit, is there is going to be more of Wizard of Oz in Part 2, then there usually is in the second act of Wicked. Because both movies are likely to be over two hours. And part 1 is already longer then the stage play. I'm sure there will be a lot of original material, hopefully some stuff mined from the book, but considering we are talking about a film musical, there is one extremely popular musical that would play right into this one. And the second act of the play already functions as a bit of a remake of the Wizard of Oz.

Exactly. The fact that it isn't what they do in the stage play is irrelevant. They're already padding the run time out, so it's not unreasonable to theorize that Wizard of Oz stuff may end up in the final product of Part 2 more than the play