When Wicked arrived at the tail end of 2024, audiences made a real song and dance about it – it pulled in over $750 million at the box office, earned Oscar nominations, and rave reviews to boot. But how do you move past ‘Defying Gravity’? The first film saw director Jon M. Chu adapt act one of the hit stage musical – telling a very different backstory for the witches of Oz, aka Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s G(a)linda – closing out on the ultimate Elphabanger. But fear not. Act two, adapted into Wicked: For Good , still has plenty in store.

As Chu tells Empire , audiences have quite literally only seen half the story, and what comes next will enrich the entire experience. “I love that people get to see the full masterplan, and the full scope of what Cynthia and Aria

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