“We thought we’d give you a little taste,” the Universal Pictures chief said Bad, which will be produced in London and directed by Jon Chu and in which Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo play the respective roles of Glinda and Elphaba.
The raw footage, which some university administrators have not even seen, shows
Elphaba is trained by Michelle Yeoh’s Madame Morrible. The footage was also a BTS roll, with Chu exclaiming, “I knew what this movie was going to be” and how he always wanted to make it for the big screen. Chu said Cynthia and Ariana walked in and blew the roof off. “The chemistry between Ariana and Cynthia is real and palpable,” says producer Marc Platt. An extensive production design better than In the forest self Oz the Great and Powerful. To recreate Emerald City, Chu planted 9 million non-CGI tulips.
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The long-in-the-making Broadway adaptation, which tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, is being split into two parts, November 27 and bad part 2 for release December 25, 2025. Based on the best-selling book by Gregory Maguire, the picture was adapted for the film by playwright Winne Holzman and composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Jeff Goldbum, Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater also star. Platt is producing alongside David Stone through Marc Platt Productions, with Senior EVP Production Erik Baiers and VP Production Development Lexi Barta overseeing the studio.
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