The darker half of Wicked's story, Wicked: For Good follows Elphaba Thropp after defying the Wizard of Oz and being branded the Wicked Witch of the West. Directed by Jon M. Chu, the film stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum. Both For Good and the previous installment adapt the Wicked Broadway musical, which in turn adapted the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

All three iterations of the story grapple with broader themes of what it means to be good and how propaganda can obscure a corrupt regime, though the musical has notably sanded down the edges of the novel. Recently, Erivo, who portrays Elphaba, discussed how these themes shaped her iteration of the witch: "

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