Here’s what ‘Wicked: Part 2’ is officially being titled
Wicked: Part 2 is set for release on November 21, 2025, and Universal Pictures has now announced its official title.
Yesterday (December 16) the official Wicked social media accounts revealed that the movie will be called Wicked: For Good.
The project is named after a duet from the second act of the Stephen Sondheim and Winnie Holzman musical, originally performed by Idina Menzel’s Elphaba and Kristin Chenoweth’s Glinda, and was filmed back-to-back with the first movie.
Wicked: For Good will see Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande reprise their respective roles of Elphaba and Glinda, continuing from where they left off after ‘Defying Gravity’ in the first movie.
And director Jon M Chu has said that the sequel is “more relevant” to where we are “in society right now,” telling Variety: “Part Two, I will say because I’ve cut Part Two together, is a doozy. “[You’re] getting the meat. I did not know the context of where we’d be in society right now. It becomes eight times more relevant than before when you’re talking about truth and consequences of making the right or wrong choices. It’s intense.”
In a four-star review of the first movie, NME wrote: “Wicked flags a little in the middle, but not enough to dampen a dramatic climax in which Elphaba and Glinda travel to Oz to meet the fabled Wonderful Wizard (Jeff Goldblum). He and Yeoh sell their brief musical numbers on twinkly charisma, but Erivo and Grande are both vocally extraordinary. Crucially, they also have crackling chemistry punctuated by Erivo’s bursts of intensity and Grande’s slick comic timing.
“By the end, you won’t quite be levitating off your seat but you’ll definitely be enchanted enough to stream the soundtrack on the way home. Funny, colourful and full of empathy for outsiders, this film really is the Shiz.”
So far, the movie has grossed over $500million at the box office, comfortably surpassing its $150million budget, and it received four Golden Globe Award nominations.
In other Wicked news, Grande recently revealed that she went over her Wicked contract alongside Erivo, to ensure that both had equal terms. She said, at a live event hosted by the SAG-AFTRA foundation, “We talk a lot about this pact that we made to take care of each other and to be really honest with each other about anything that were to come up. But I don’t think people really get how granular we got and how fully we mean that.
“When I got my contract I called her and I was like, ‘Hey, let’s go through this thing. Let’s go beat per beat through this together and make sure that we’re aligned in what we need. Because if you need something, we need it together. I want us to have each other’s backs. Like, your problems become my problems, and mine become yours.’”
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