Finally after years of being in development, the gravity defying tale Wicked is coming to a big screen possibly near you!
The long-awaited “Wicked” movie adaptation will be released on Dec. 20, 2019, Universal annouced on Thursday.
Academy Award Nominated Director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Reader. Every film he has been nominated for an Oscar in the major categories) is directing the big-screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical bestselling book and Marc Platt is producing. Both are producing the long-running stage show
The Tony Award-winning stage musical was adapted from Gregory Maguire’s bestselling novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” by book writer Winnie Holzman and Oscar-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz, who are also collaborating on the screenplay adaptation.
“Wicked” is produced on Broadway by Platt, Universal Stage Productions, the Araca Group, Jon B. Platt and David Stone.
The original Broadway production about the untold story of the Witches of Oz starred Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. The show — now in its 13th year — has won three Tony Awards. It’s the 10th longest-running Broadway show of all time and has grossed more than $1 billion at the Broadway box office.
The play is an alternative telling of the 1939 classic movie “The Wizard of Oz,” which was based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 story of the same name.
Universal’s “Mamma Mia” is the highest grossing Broadway musical-to-movie adaptation of all time. It earned $609.8 millkion worldwide in 2008.
‘Wicked’ Movie Release Date Set | Variety