Wicked
2024, PG, 160 min.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, Starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Bronwyn James.

Jon M. Chu (In the Heights, Crazy Rich Asians) helms the first of two films adapting the hit Broadway musical about the origins of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda the Good Witch (Ariana Grande). Brace for a cliffhanger: Part Two doesn’t arrive until November 2025.

This article appears in November 22 • 2024.

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