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Yea that's kinda the point of the whole musical

I’ve heard that’ll be hard to do because there are going to be several new songs? I don’t remember how many offhand, but there will be surprises for folks who’ve seen the musical and are familiar with it.

@ElizaHamilton1780 that's awesome to hear though! I guess I'll hold off on looking up the soundtrack before hand and be surprised in the movie theater. I would have been either way as I never got the opportunity to see the Broadway version

what scene?

Yea this is a friggin shame. A year long intermission is a crime

Following in Dune's footsteps

....Dune, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Twilight: Breaking Dawn, The Matrix films. This is nothing new and it often just reeks of a cash grab. The one thing that sets _Wicked_ apart from the other films is that it's based on a property that already has a _runtime_ versus pages in a book. The question is whether this could actually be an instance where fans would prefer the filmmakers flesh the films out a bit and preserve as much of the songs from the stage production rather than butchering it to fit a two or a two-and-a-half hour timeframe.

⁠@@amac0190Tell that to Harry Potter and Twilight!

The musical this movie is based on was released 20+ years ago…

The book this is based on was released in 1995. It's not part of a "modern trend". If you are unable to appreciate a fuller story beyond "green woman wants a pair of shoes", then you are at a disadvantage and intellectually lazy.

u have no idea what your talking abt ignorant :)

Hahaa tell me you're uncultured without telling me you're uncultured

You embarrassed yourself so badly. That’s laughable. 🩵

I've seen some snippets here and there. But, I totally haven't seen the whole show/story even on Broadway! So, same here!☝🏻🥺

The stage musical is great. I've only been able to see it twice, on tour. The book it's based on is spectacular. This looks like it has incorporated all the wonderful music and the fantastic story from the book.

​​​​@@ChristopherRuggles I'm sorry, but I have to say I very much disagree. I'm a lifelong fan of everything Oz, but I think the main reason I've yet to jump onboard the _Wicked_ train is because I really - _really_ - disliked the novel it's based on. I think it's a really overused trope at this point to take properties originally created for an all-ages audience and turn them gritty and realistic. Sometimes it works (as in the case of the Batman comics, for instance) and sometimes it just leaves a terrible aftertaste. The Oz books themselves have been mined for films, TV series, and other media that run the gamut from being surprisingly faithful but entirely too dark (Dorothy's electroshock therapy in _Return to Oz)_ to outright horrific (the McFarlane series of reimagined figures). With its allusions to Nazi Germany and the heavy political slant, Gregory McGuire's _Wicked_ took the story way too far out of the context I think most people hold of Oz. I've been told by several people that the musical uses the characters and the framework of the novel and improves upon it. I'm hoping that's true. I'm very much eager for the film (even if I find it _so_ unfortunately reminiscent of Sam Raimi's _Oz the Great and Powerful,_ which had interesting concepts but ended up merely being the film everyone was hoping _would have_ been _Wicked._ In the end, please don't let my words here stop anyone from reading the novel - it's entirely up to one's personal opinions whether they'll enjoy it or not, but I do think it's worthwhile to acknowledge it's not as universally beloved as the musical based on it is.

Pretty sure Universal doesnt care

@davecook-vann7336 oh I know they don't if they did they NEVER Would have cast either of these two in the leads

your eyebrows...

@@lovergalbb what do my eyebrows have to do with anything lol

​@@doyouhearthepeoplesing2and just what is the problem with the leads?

Jump off

Oh sit down and hush. Nothing about this says LGBTQ+. Besides, anyone who knows the broadway musical knows its been extremely popular with the LGBTQ+ community even if it was.

Technically it's sticking to the Book and play whilst still being its own material

Thats the costumes and makeup in the broadway show..

Including queer people is expanding the audience for a work. Also, who do you think watches musicals? Frat bros?