movie Wicked | Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande | Positive early reviews

[Azulito]

 

 

 

 

[Azulito]

Two movies  

[gatito]

the Infinity War/Endgame for the gays 

[TaylorNation]

I guess the first movie will cut to black after Defying Gravity?

 

also I hope they don’t use this extended running time to actually show Dorothy and the other characters, they way it’s done in the show is perfect 

[Pineapple]

Two whole years until we see this omg

[Slate]

So far away but I'm excited  hopefully we get more casting announcements soon

[Uncatena]

This is going to bomb so hard omg

[NavyBlue]

Y’all I have faith in Ari and Cynthia. I just hope Chu can get his **** together and give us the movie(s) we deserve!!! Please for the love of God don’t **** it up. 

[mxoonlight]

This is going to be a lot. ? I’m going to try to stay optimistic though.

[Blue Monday]

Dune waited until opening weekend to have part 2 greenlit and announced, so the studio must be feeling very confident about this... I honestly don't know what to expect 

[Lost In Paradise]

This is so dumb. why would anyone see Part 2? The best songs are all in Act 1.
 

The musical is 2 hours and 40 minutes and has some stuff they could’ve cut for the movie.

 

We didn’t ask for a Wicked extended universe. Just a ******* good Wicked movie.

[kindararenext]

the dramatics in here… 

[Jjang]

Yeah this is a dumb decision.  I would cancel the project all-together tbh. 

[Mikeymoonshine]

I love wicked but I'm not sure it's two movies worth of content tbh. 

 

 

[Redstreak]

16 minutes ago, Mikeymoonshine said:

I love wicked but I'm not sure it's two movies worth of content tbh. 

 

 

Maybe they’re setting it up to turn the whole series into movies 

[Lost In Paradise]

1 hour ago, NavyBlue said:

I just hope Chu can get his **** together and give us the movie(s) we deserve!!! Please for the love of God don’t **** it up. 

What has Jon Chu done successfully? Quickly.

[Gui Blackout]

Yeah two movies is absolutely not necessary, I mean this ain't Dune  the musical is around 2 and half hours, that's more than enough for a movie

 

My excitement kinda nosedived

[NavyBlue]

44 minutes ago, Lost In Paradise said:

What has Jon Chu done successfully? Quickly.

Tea!! Drag me sis. But, not a damn thing I can think of. 

[justinxx]

i guess each movie is going to be less than two hours

[Lovett]

1 hour ago, Lost In Paradise said:

What has Jon Chu done successfully? Quickly.

In the Heights. It's f*cking perfection.

[Coma Baby]

This project already sounds like a nonstarter. They're setting themselves up. 

 

What happened to the Hercules live action movie? Meg would have been a much better role for Ariana. 

Edited April 26, 2022 by Coma Baby

[Attitude]

If the first one bombs.

[Jack!]

This is... a choice. I'm anxious about how this is going to translate into the big screen as it is, but I'm personally not sure two instalments is necessary. I get this was a book and there's more story to explore than what the musical goes off on as well, but other than Ariana fans, the core audience for this will be fans of the musical, and I think theres enough to cut to still make one instalment successful. The Phantom of the Opera went from 2:45 runtime to 2:20 and was still able to be successful enough to be the most successful movie adaption of a musical of all time. I don't know there's enough to stretch out of both Wicked acts to make this work, but we'll see.

[Lille]

Musicals are already dying at the box office, this director's last musical was a massive bomb and this led them to think "We should do TWO"?

 

Another (two) flops in the basket.

[Lost In Paradise]

3 hours ago, MrLovett said:

In the Heights. It's f*cking perfection.

I just thought it was uneven. some amazing bright spots, and a lot of numbers and scenes that fell flat.

 

but I respect you as one of the only other theatre queens on this site so I'll give it a rewatch and hopefully I'll be more optimistic