If you go to the cinema to see Evil this weekend, you could have been stunned to see the movie marketed within the opening credit as Wicked: Part One.
Indeed, Wicked: Part Two it would truly hit theaters on November 21, 2025 — and in 2022, defined the musical’s composer Stephen Schwartz the Schwartz scene as a result of the story was simply too large for a film.
Stephen defined that, concerning the movie adaptation, Evil it wanted the cinematic equal of an intermission following the sequence accompanying the beloved tune “Defying Gravity.”
“That music was written particularly to convey down the curtain, and any scene that adopted it with out interruption felt completely anti-climactic,” he defined.
Stephen additionally defined that the filmmakers “tried” to condense Evil into one movie, however stored operating into “two issues” that finally necessitated splitting the story into two movies.
The first, as beforehand identified, was the issue with “Defying Gravity.” Additionally, in line with Stephen, “though it was a really lengthy single movie, it required us to chop or omit issues that we needed to incorporate and that we predict followers of the present and the story will respect.”
“So for these two causes,” he defined, “plus the thrill of doing one thing that is by no means been completed earlier than with a musical, we determined to make two movies.”
“We firmly consider that is what’s greatest for our story, our present and our followers.”
Have you seen? Evil this weekend? Do you agree or disagree with the choice to separate it into two movies? Let us know within the feedback!
