‘Wicked Part Two’ Moves Up A Month To Thanksgiving 2025

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Universal Pictures looks to be pretty excited about its upcoming adaptation of the global Broadway hit Wicked as the studio is moving up Wicked Part Two to Nov. 26, 2025 https://t.co/K0pOjsTtb9
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) June 20, 2023
The film was originally set to bow on Christmas 2025, with Wicked Part One opening worldwide on November 27,

Comments

[bakemonos]

They should move it up so far that it merges with part 1.

[thispaintedlife]

idk whose idea it was to split this into two parts, the second act/half is weaker by far.

[bakemonos]

Fr I'm like ... girl how much time we gonna spend at the school this isn't Hogwarts PACK IT UP

[squirrels_oh_no]

There is a reason the shortened versions (like at Universal Studios Japan) ended with Defying Gravity and pretended there wasn't a 2nd act.

[pseudonygma]

If they were gonna go down this route, they should've just stuck with giving us a book adaptation. From what I remember, it has way more juicier content than the Broadway show. Have the first movie cover everything from her birth to her graduation and have the second movie be about all her political stance and how the press vilify her for her activism.

[little_vienna]

I want a series adaptation of the books so bad. It's a lot more interesting IMO. (The last book in the sequel series trilogy comes out this year too... wouldn't mind an adaptation of those either, especially with the stuff that happened in book #2.)

[pseudonygma]

I really do not understand why they're giving us an adaptation of the Broadway show. It's just washing down an already washed-down plot that they're now having to fill-in to stretch it into 2 movies. It's so dumb. The source material is right there! Why do this at all if they're not gonna give us something different and a lot closer to canon?

[little_vienna]

Likeability and recognition of the Broadway show, I'd bet. If they adapted the novels, most people would be expecting the musical, only to show up for a film where Glinda, Elphaba and co get into political debates and attend the Philosophy Club and the Wizard actively has people killed.

I think the books would only get made as a series and they'd be heavily marketing THIS IS NOT THE MUSICAL THIS IS NOT THE MUSICAL in every way possible.