Wickedhas ended up causing a lot of confusion.
The first film is just calledWicked.
The second film, which comes out next November, will be titledWicked: Part Two.
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The film issplit between Act One and Act Twoaccording to theBroadway musical by Stephen Schwartz.
During his conversation withGizmodo, he referenced his post about the choice.
“I think we were pretty clear that there are two parts from the very beginning.
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I had a statement, did the whole thing, everyone reacted.
I knew that there was going to be a certain reaction,” Chu said.
There was no question.
The story of how a green-skinned woman framed by the Wizard of Oz becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. The first of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
But I understood what those choices were."
“And I felt like everybody knew it was a musical anyway,” Chu said.
“We had musical trailers and things like that.
Its actually, technically, very difficult.
And they were dancing at different rhythms and things.
It becomes a mess very quickly.
So even the ones we did release, I thought it was impossible to cut all those songs together.
But its technically very challenging.
Its not just a choice that, ‘Oh, we cant.’
How do you go from ‘The Wizard and I’ to ‘Defying Gravity’ without changing the key?
Its very difficult.”
you could seeWickedin theaters now!
The first of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
