When it was announced that Wicked was finally being made into a movie, fans of the Broadway show were thrilled to finally get to see the story of the Wicked Witch of the West play out on the big screen after being confined to the stage for more than a decade. However, the two-part epic may have never come about if director Jon M. Chu had not been brave enough to go ahead and split the original script into two movies. At the BFI London Film Festival, Chu said of the original script:

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