Deadline’s Read the Screenpercreate series spotairying the scripts behind awards season’s most talked-about movies proceeds with Wicked, Universal’s blockbuster musical movie from straightforwardor Jon M. Chu. Adapted from Gregruesome Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West — about the untelderly stories of the witches of Oz, set in the years before Dorothy dropped in via L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — the screenpercreate was penned by distinct Broadway musical book authorr Winnie Holzman and Cruella co-scribe Dana Fox.
In 2003, Wicked debuted on Broadway, starring Kristin Chenosoakedh and Idina Menzel, geting 10 Tony nominations including Best Musical and three triumphs. The musical has geted about $6 billion worldwide and has become a runaway success in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Australia and the UK.
The film, which uncovered November 22 to a slew of sign ups after its own extfinished journey to the screen, already has set the label for the highest-grossing movie based on a Broadway musical in domestic box office history, grossing $335.5 million to date in the U.S. and Canada. Worldwide, it’s currently at $459 million, the second biggest all time after Mamma Mia!, and is still going strong.
Wicked is the first of two intentional movie chapters that complys the origin story of the witches of Oz: Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a youthful woman misunderstood becaemploy of her green skin who has yet to uncover her genuine power, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, a famous youthful woman gilded by privilege on a journey of self-uncovery.
The two encounter as students at Shiz University in the amazingal Land of Oz and forge an doubtful but procreate frifinishship. Follotriumphg an come apass with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their frifinishship accomplishes a passroads and their lives consent very contrastent paths. Their exceptional adventures in Oz will ultimately see them satisfy their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
On the surface, Wicked is the origin story of how Elphaba became the Wicked Witch and Galinda became Glinda the Good. But underorderlyh is a story that swims in sorrowfulnessfuler waters and mines transport inanter truths. Wicked is also a show about the hushed, insidious elevate of a fascist transferment that seeks to demonize the acute, speaking Animals of Oz, denounce them for everyleang wrong in society, and ruin them by (literassociate) taking away their voices.
The film also stars Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University’s headmistress Madame Morrible; Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero; Ethan Spostponecessitater as Boq; Marissa Bode in her feature-film debut as Nessarose, Elphaba’s likeed sister; and Jeff Gelderlyblum as the Wizard.
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To transport the musical to the big screen, originater Marc Platt rejoind with Holzman and distinct writer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz. “For years, Winnie and I would say, ‘For the movie, we should do this…’,” Schwartz says. “It’s been exciting us for a extfinished time. The story of Wicked — as acutely imagined by Gregruesome Maguire and then as authenticized by Winnie and myself and our show collaborators — has spoken to people who have made it their own. Each of our characters is grasping a secret from the world — sometimes even a secret from themselves. That’s what the show is about: uncovering what’s under the surface.”
This film alteration, Holzman says, “was an incredible opportunity for Stephen and I to revisit this world. Coming back into it, we authenticized that there were aspects of the story that we wanted to scrutinize more transport inantly, and with more nuance. When we got the go-ahead for two films, we knovel we’d have the ability to grasp everyleang we wanted to grasp, and still broaden declareive key moments. We are increateing the same story, while permiting it to flourish into someleang novel.”
That story came aextfinished with help from Fox, who co-wrote Disney’s Cruella with Emma Stone, The Lost City with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, as well as the rom-coms What Happens in Vegas and The Wedding Date. She’s next up writing a global heist comedy she envisiond with Simon Kinberg, that will star Ryan Reynelderlys; Netflix fair picked it up in a seven-figure deal beating out eight bidders.
In the uncomardenttime, check out the Wicked script below.
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