For Good’ Will Have Extra Dorothy Than Anticipated

Clearly, Dorothy has to enter the Wicked story finally—the flicks are based mostly on the Broadway musical, which relies on the e book, which riffs off The Wizard of Oz and its personal source-material books. And everybody is aware of The Wizard of Oz follows Dorothy’s journey over the rainbow, the place she meets and defeats the green-skinned Depraved Witch of the West.

Depraved could present Elphaba’s facet of the story with a sympathetic eye, however everyone knows she’s on a collision course with a sure bucket of water. Now, Depraved director Jon M. Chu is teasing how that pesky twister traveler from Kansas will discover her method into upcoming sequel Wicked: For Good.

Chatting with Vanity Fair in a “first-look” article timed to Depraved: For Good‘s trailer (arriving later as we speak), Chu defined how his movie will develop Dorothy’s position. Within the stage musical, she’s an implied presence, however she stays hidden behind a scrim. The journal obtained an early take a look at the trailer, nonetheless, and divulges that we’ll see Dorothy and her well-known friends (the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion; presumably Toto’s there, too) strolling down the yellow brick highway to Oz.

“That intersection is the place that we have been first launched into Oz,” Chu defined of Dorothy’s position in For Good. “We tread flippantly, however attempt to make extra sense of the way it impacts our women and our characters than perhaps the present does.”

Nevertheless, don’t count on Depraved: For Good to be the Dorothy present. “We’re delicate. We’re delicate. We’re delicate,” Chu emphasised, anticipating that followers of the musical would possibly shudder on the considered too many modifications.

Talking of modifications, the profile additionally provides just a few particulars in regards to the two new songs that may seem in For Good; one for Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba, and one for Ariana Grande’s Glinda. And although the primary Depraved contained the musical’s most well-known tunes (together with the show-stopping “Defying Gravity,” which got here on the finish of the movie), Chu insists “there are some bangers” to return within the sequel.

Depraved: For Good hits theaters November 21. Examine again on io9 for the much-anticipated first trailer later as we speak.

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