Fans have lastly gotten their first take a look at Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo within the Wicked film adaptation.
Director Jon M. Chu revealed the primary look from the film in an Instagram put up shared on Sunday, April sixteenth, 2023.
“You weren’t told the whole story. What happens when you veer off the Yellow Brick Road? FIRST LOOK of the #WickedMovie … currently in production in Oz,” Chu wrote on IG.
In the darkly lit images, Erivo is sporting her character, Elphaba’s signature pointy witch hat and broom. The actress commented on Chu’s put up with a number of inexperienced coronary heart emojis, “It’s been wonderful making magic with you.”
Meanwhile, within the second shot, Grande is dressed as Glinda, in a putting pink robe as she ascends a staircase.
Universal’s movie adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which relies on the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, was first introduced all the best way again in 2016, per Variety.
A prequel to The Wizard of Oz, Wicked tells the story of all the pieces that occurred earlier than Dorothy sauntered down that iconic yellow brick highway.
The story will revolve across the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, who later turns into the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, often known as the Good Witch. It additionally reveals how the Wicked Witch received that pointy hat.
Along with Grande and Erivo, the forged lso consists of Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Jeff Goldblum because the Wizard, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible and Ethan Slater as Boq.
