Pour one out for the doubters. When Universal announced director Jon M. Chu would be breaking the hit Broadway musical Wicked into two films, there was a lot of grumbling that this was a cash-grab decision that would not be justified in the storytelling.
Sure, 2024’s Wicked had a terrific climax, ending with Elphaba’s escape from Emerald City and the show’s greatest song, “Defying Gravity.” But how do you make Act 2, a wobblier construct with new characters and jarring reveals, work as its own movie? Chu shows us how with Wicked: For Good.
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