Wicked (titled onscreen as Wicked: Part I) is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu, and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, with songs by Stephen Schwartz. It is the first installment of a two-part film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name based on the 1995 novel, which in turn is based on the Oz books and the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
The film covers the musical's first act. It stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp and Ariana Grande-Butera[b] as Galinda Upland, with Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum rounding out the principal cast. Set in the Land of Oz before the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her friendship with her classmate Galinda, the future Glinda the Good.
Universal Pictures and Marc Platt, who both produced the stage musical, announced the film adaptation in 2012. After a long development and multiple delays, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chu was hired to direct, with Erivo and Grande cast in 2021. The adaptation was split into two parts to avoid cutting plot points and expand the characters' journeys and relationships. Principal photography began in England in December 2022, was interrupted in July 2023 by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and was resumed and completed in January 2024.
Wicked premiered at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia, on November 3, 2024, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 22. Critical response was positive; the film was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the American Film Institute, and won Best Film at the National Board of Review. It has received several other accolades, such as four nominations at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy) and eleven at the 30th Critics' Choice Awards (including Best Picture). It has grossed $469 million worldwide on a $150 million budget, becoming Chu's highest-grossing film and is the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year. Wicked Part Two is scheduled for release on November 21, 2025.
In the Land of Oz, the citizens of Munchkinland celebrate the death of the Wicked Witch of the West. A child asks Glinda the Good why evil is present, and Glinda reflects on the question by discussing the Witch's backstory: born from an affair between the wife of then-Governor Thropp and a traveling salesman, she was rejected from birth due to her green skin, which caused her to suffer a troubled childhood ("No One Mourns the Wicked"). When asked if she and the Witch were friends, Glinda replies that they knew each other.
Years earlier, Elphaba Thropp arrives at Shiz University to drop off her paraplegic younger sister Nessarose ("Dear Old Shiz"). Madame Morrible, Shiz's Dean of Sorcery Studies, offers to privately tutor Elphaba after witnessing an unintentional display of her magical abilities. Elphaba accepts in the hopes that it will allow her to meet Oz's ruler, the Wizard, and be "de-greenified" ("The Wizard and I"). To her discontent, however, she is forced to room with bubbly, popular Galinda Upland; the two clash constantly ("What is this Feeling?"). One night, Elphaba follows Dr. Dillamond, a talking Goat who teaches Ozian history and faces discrimination, to his off-campus home. Dillamond reveals other Animals are losing their civil rights, to which Elphaba assures him the Wizard will handle the matter ("Something Bad").
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