Wicked movie confirms earlier release date
Wicked: Part One has announced an earlier release date than previously shared.
The movie is based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name and stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo respectively as Glinda the Good Witch and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Universal Pictures has confirmed that the film will now debut in UK and US cinemas on November 22 – a week earlier than its original November 27 release date.
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The big-screen adaptation of Wicked is being split into two movies, with part one dropping this year and part two currently scheduled to follow in November 2025.
The full trailer for Wicked: Part One dropped in May, showing Grande and Erivo in the land of Oz. It also featured supporting cast members Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum and Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey.
Bailey plays Glinda and Elphaba's classmate Fiyero, who finds himself the object of both witches' affection. Meanwhile, Yeoh portrays professor Madame Morrible and Goldblum appears as the all-powerful Wizard of Oz.
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The trailer also teases Erivo and Grande's take on the fan-favourite musical songs 'Popular' and 'Defying Gravity', re-recorded for the film's soundtrack.
Wicked centres on the relationship between witches Glinda and Elphaba, beginning as young pupils (and initial enemies) at the prestigious Shiz University.
They go on to become firm friends who face off against the admired and all-powerful Wizard of Oz and his corrupt governmental activities.
The 2003 musical was developed by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman, loosely based on the 1995 book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
The novel reimagines the witch and wizard characters from L Frank Baum's classic novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Wicked: Part One will now be released in UK and US cinemas on Friday, November 22.
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