Wicked (2024) (original) (raw)
Director: Jon M. Chu Run Time: 160 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 2024
Starring: Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh
Country: United States
Language: English
About the film:
Elphaba, an ostracized but defiant girl born with green skin, and Glinda, a privileged aristocrat born popular, become extremely unlikely friends in the magical Land of Oz. As the two girls struggle with their opposing personalities, their friendship is tested as both begin to fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West. The first of a two-part film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
Images courtesy of Universal Pictures
About the filmmakers:
Jonathan Murray Chu is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians, one of the first films by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent in a modern setting since The Joy Luck Club in 1993.
MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts
WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media