“Musical” has been a dirty word in marketing some recent song-and-dance studio films, but there’s no avoiding it in bringing “Wicked” to the big screen.
11 hours ago Entertainment of the 21st century, or telling a story so connected to one of the most beloved movie musicals ever, “The Wizard of Oz.” But Chu, the 44-year-old filmmaker of 2021’s“When words aren’t enough, music is the extension of your expression. That’s what movies do, and that’s what musicals do,” says Chu. “When it’s tied into their communication of where characters are at in this moment and time, it’s the most beautiful thing.
Various forms of a “Wicked” movie been in development almost since the Broadway show opened in 2003 — earlier, in fact, because producer Marc Platt initially developed Gregory Maguire’s book “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” as a film before shifting to the stage. Much of “Wicked” will hinge on its two leads . Chu says he never did a chemistry read with Erivo and Grande together — even though Grande auditioned numerous times.
“I knew Cynthia could do ‘Defy Gravity’ anytime, anywhere,” says Chu. “What I didn’t know was how vulnerable she could be. But when she came in and sang ‘The Wizard and I,’ she showed her wounds. To me, that’s why I fell in love with movies, when you get to see someone so raw.”“That structure and those journeys made it that much easier to see, oh, there’s two different stories,” says Platt, the veteran producer of “La La Land,” “Into the Woods” and “Legally Blonde.
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