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UltraCruelSummer View member profile	16th June 2016, 11:36 PM Post #1
It's a cruel summer. Joined: 26 May 2014 Posts: 35,268 User: 20,947	Finally a release date announced for the movie version of Wicked 💚 Have been waiting for this for about at least 4 years so I'm so excited that something finally seems to be happening! (Even if it is ages away!) Who do you want to play Elphaba and Glinda? And defying gravity on the big screen will be . 💖


Tafty³³³ View member profile	17th June 2016, 12:15 AM Post #2
I found the love, I found the love in me Pronouns: He/Him Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,728 User: 5,042	Really pleased about this news. I would LOVE for them to do the live singing thing that was done with 'Les Miserables'! Hope they know what they want to do with it. Which one is the one Idina plays? Coz I think Samantha Barks would do that role well. (I speak as if I know what I'm talking about, I don't. I really wanna see the musical though!)


Josh! View member profile	17th June 2016, 07:05 AM Post #3
c: Joined: 12 March 2014 Posts: 13,175 User: 20,692	Very excited for this, my second favourite musical I've seen live (behind Lion Kin, ofc!) and the book was equally as good too. Really hope things move smoothly and we don't get any pushbacks. I hope they don't do too much snipping and we get near enough full versions of the best songs like No One Mourns the Wicked, Popular etc. And I really don't want Something Baaad to be cut but already thinking it will be Samantha Barks would be fantastic I think for Elphaba. I hope we get cameos from the likes of Idina too.


Qween View member profile	17th June 2016, 08:12 AM Post #4
Schlagerdrottningen Joined: 23 August 2010 Posts: 31,966 User: 11,709	YAAAAAS I don't really have any worries about them doing the 'big' songs right, but I will be so very pissed off if they mess with No One Mourns The Wicked.


Tafty³³³ View member profile	9th February 2019, 11:47 AM Post #5
I found the love, I found the love in me Pronouns: He/Him Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,728 User: 5,042	Been pushed back 2 years (hardly surprising when they have NO cast as of yet ) 22nd December 2021 now. Long time to wait. It's gonna be directed by Stephen Daldry (who did 'Billy Elliott I believe).


J❄️hq View member profile	22nd May 2024, 07:11 PM Post #6
my anxiety attacks Pronouns: he/him Joined: 15 April 2009 Posts: 30,826 User: 8,674	Wasn't sure whether to revive this thread or create a brand new one, but thought it would be funny to look back and see that it's finally on the way, eight years after this thread was made Now with Jon M. Chu ("Crazy Rich Asians" and "In The Heights") as the director 6COmYeLsz4c Cynthia Erivo has really gone onto such big things, I can't believe that I first saw her in the failed X Factor musical back in 2014


Tafty³³³ View member profile	24th May 2024, 01:55 AM Post #7
I found the love, I found the love in me Pronouns: He/Him Joined: 13 December 2007 Posts: 87,728 User: 5,042	I think this looks like it could be pretty fun. However, I saw 'Wicked' in theatre last year for the first time and although it was good, I wasn't completely bowled over by it, bar the excellent 'Defying Gravity'. The songs are catchy enough, but I just wasn't that enamored by the story on the whole. I wonder if it'll be easier for me to digest in movie form...


spiceboy View member profile	28th May 2024, 09:46 AM Post #8
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 6 September 2017 Posts: 12,146 User: 39,568	QUOTE(Tafty³³³ @ 24th May 2024, 02:55 AM) I think this looks like it could be pretty fun. However, I saw 'Wicked' in theatre last year for the first time and although it was good, I wasn't completely bowled over by it, bar the excellent 'Defying Gravity'. The songs are catchy enough, but I just wasn't that enamored by the story on the whole. I wonder if it'll be easier for me to digest in movie form... I was the same, I liked the show but it wasn't my favourite musical by a long stretch.


Herbs View member profile	28th May 2024, 10:16 AM Post #9
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 14 March 2006 Posts: 5,950 User: 214	I loooooooooved the show (saw it in 2012) I am still nervous about this release, mainly as I can't see how Ariana Grande is going to work in it. Fingers crossed it will knock it out of the park


Liаm View member profile	28th May 2024, 10:36 AM Post #10
Brown cow, stunning! Joined: 7 December 2009 Posts: 67,277 User: 10,139	I wasn’t sure about Ari either, on paper she seems right, visually you can see her as Glinda, but I was worried about her vocals being right for the songs that Glinda performs. The newest trailer put that to rest a bit though, we only heard a bit but her vocals do sound quite Kristin Chenoweth, I just hope she puts her own spin on it enough and hasn’t vocally trained to be too similar because you just can’t be Kristin Chenoweth’s Glinda. With Cynthia, she makes perfect sense as Elphaba already and yet feels so different to Idina’s, can’t wait to hear her do No Good Deed, although that won’t be until part 2 comes out D: