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I will attack the first person who suggests Lea Michelle or Arianna Grande.
 
Lea Michele surely is a shoe-in?

She’s been hovering around it for YEARS
 
Daldry OUT! Will be interesting to see who takes it on next...

‘Wicked’ Director Stephen Daldry Exits Universal Movie Musical Adaptation

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Daldry has exited as the director of Wicked, Universal’s long awaited screen adaptation of the smash hit stage musical. Sources tell Deadline that the studio wants this movie mounted more quickly than Daldry was comfortable moving. Also, there was a shortage of stage space in London that will make it not possible to shoot the film there, something that was important to Daldry.

I’m told Daldry’s exit is amicable and becomes another creative casualty of the pandemic. Universal is back out looking for directors and it instantly becomes one of the more coveted Open Directing Assignments out there right now. The studio hopes to begin production late next year. Songwriter Stephen Schwartz and book writer Winnie Holzman teamed on the script and Marc Platt, who produces the stage musical with David stone, is producing the film.

Universal certainly has been patient on this one, mainly because the studio has a stake in the stage musical, which continues to be a financial juggernaut. No stage musical movie adaptation is a guaranteed hit — Cats is the cautionary tale — but this has to be as close to a surefire hit as any musical adaptation percolating at a studio.

The Wizard of Oz prequel is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, and focuses on the early relationship between Glinda the Good and Elphaba, a green-skinned beauty before she ended up a flying hag on a broomstick. Wicked began as a movie development project with Platt and Universal, before they changed course and took it to the stage first. It was an immediate sensation, quickly recouping its $14 million capitalization in 2004 and becoming one of the biggest grossing tuners of all time, with the Broadway show and all the touring companies.

There should be no small list of filmmakers interested. Back in 2010, Deadline revealed that when the musical first began its trek toward the movies, JJ Abrams, James Mangold, Ryan Murphy, and Rob Marshall were among the directors who met or threw their hat in the ring. And the creative community is buzzing that Steven Spielberg is looking to find a directing vehicle, this after wrapping West Side Story.

Stay tuned.

https://deadline.com/2020/10/wicked...ldry-universal-musical-adaptation-1234600446/
 
Anyone but Rob Marshall and Tom Hooper (not that I care much about Wicked these days but I still don’t want it to be shit).
 
New director!



He's directed Crazy Rich Asians and the upcoming film version of the pre-Hamilton Lin-Manuel Miranda musical In The Heights
 
In the Heights looks great even for me who hates LMM.

Also whatever happened to Crazy Rich Asians? It was supposed to be a franchise and then just died.
 
Phoenix said:
Anyone but Rob Marshall and Tom Hooper (not that I care much about Wicked these days but I still don’t want it to be shit).
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Tom Hooper would have brought the BOLD ARTISTIC CHOICE of painting Elphaba green with SNOT.
 
Emmy Raver-Lampman from The Umbrella Academy is supposedly in the running for Elphaba

Here's a decent but not sensational Defying Gravity from her:

 
This project is so cursed

And In The Heights was a dreary dud so I don't think Jon Chu is much of a coup.
 
Given it’s one of the biggest musicals of all time you’d expect a bit more buzz if it was 3 months away. But I guess that’s what happens when a film has been delayed for more than a decade.

I can’t see the music being as big as The Greatest Showman or Frozen simply because so many people already know and own the soundtrack of the Broadway production. But I imagine they’ll record a new song, because Oscars, and it’ll be interesting to see how big it is and how it holds up.
 
Oops ignore me the thread took me to an old post not a recent one :rolleyes:

I HATE the way moopy on mobile does that. I start commenting on things that aren’t even relevant anymore…
 
It's such a big story that it's going to take a huge production to do it justice.

The Ozdust Ballroom! The monkeys! Shiz!, Defying Gravity!

It's going to cost an absolutely monstrous sum of money.
 
I hope they incorporate some of the book’s mythology. The film has the opportunity to explore some of the interesting themes that the musical had to gloss over. I get they only have 2 hours as well, but visually the world needs more references. And they shouldn’t skim over the ethnic cleansing stuff either.
 
I'd be surprised if it did. I imagine they'll want to keep this a very straight adaptation as the books really are way too weird for a big budget film.
 
I think the moment has passed, does anyone care anymore?
 
Was there not talk of there being a separate TV adaptation of the books at some point?
 
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