![]() ![]() Chu and have Cynthia Erivo as the Wicked Witch delivering “Defying Gravity,” with Ariana Grande as her blonde-privileged counterpart.Īpparently never under consideration: an initial road-show version of a long movie with an intermission built in. The Universal films will be directed by Jon M. Schwartz is understood to be working on at least one new song. I feel confident that by the time the movie is made, if we all continue to have the same degree of input, I could have a conversation with anyone who has a question about any of the changes made from the stage show and justify why I think it’s better for the movie.”Īll parties have indicated that additional material is being added in lengthening a show that runs 2 hours and 45 minutes on Broadway - with an intermission - into two films that will presumably last at least an hour and a half each. They can’t just be changes to do something different. They need to add something to the story or the characters. But we strongly believe that this is what’s best for our story, our show, and our fans.”Īdditionally, Schwartz said, “What we have discussed is that changes need to be ‘additive,’ to use (producer) Marc Platt’s term. Of course, when it’s all done, if it doesn’t work that way, we’ll have to figure something out. “So, for these two reasons,” Schwartz continued, “plus the excitement of doing something that’s never been done before with a musical, we have decided to do two movies. The first is that even as a very long single movie, it required us cutting or omitting things that we wanted to include and that we think fans of the show and the story will appreciate.” The second reason, as he explained it, came down to the show-stopper number, and the inability for what comes at the beginning of Act 2 to escape its gravitational pull. ![]() “The truth is we tried for some time to make it one movie, even if it had to be one very long movie,” Schwartz said in his statement to the newsletter. ![]()
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