Overview
- Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series has released the complete Wicked: For Good script for free online.
- The screenplay adapts Act 2 of the stage musical and documents material trimmed from the film, including extended Madame Morrible music and a brief Wizard reprise.
- Jon M. Chu directs a cast led by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, with Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Ethan Slater, and Marissa Bode, who is reported as the first wheelchair-using actor to play Nessarose.
- Two new songs—No Place Like Home and Girl in the Bubble—are reported to have made the Oscars Best Original Song shortlist, as the film collects five Golden Globe and seven Critics Choice nominations and an AFI Film of the Year nod.
- The movie has surpassed roughly $469–470 million worldwide, and a new sing-along edition of the soundtrack has been released for fans.