02 February 2021
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Jon M. Chu has been tapped to direct the big-screen adaptation of smash-hit Broadway musical Wicked.
The Crazy Rich Asians director has signed up to replace Billy Elliot filmmaker Stephen Daldry, who departed the project, which has been in development for more than decade, in October due to scheduling conflicts, according to Deadline.
Chu, who recently made upcoming movie musical In the Heights, tweeted some of the lyrics to Defying Gravity, the show s signature song, besides a screengrab of the Deadline article and expressed his excitement at the news in a lengthy note. When I saw Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman s Wicked over 15 years ago as it was being workshopped in San Francisco I couldn t unsee it, he wrote. So to think that I have been invited to bring this timeless story to the biggest screens all around the world for people to experience with their family, best friends and total strangers. of all walks of life, ages, shapes and colo
The Tony award-winning Broadway musical is coming to the big screen.
Wicked the movie, based off the musical we all know and dearly love is getting a Hollywood makeover and we cannot bloody wait.
As if the soundtrack isn’t something to have you feeling buzzed already with songs like Defying Gravity, Popular and One Short Day, then surely the news that a director has come on board will get you excited for what’s to come.
Announced at the beginning of this month, Joh M Chu, the man behind Crazy Rich Asians, Step Up 2: The Streets
, and the upcoming movie version of musical In the Heights, is set to lead the show down the yellow brick road.
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It was followed by Bring Him Home, also from the French musical based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel.
Wicked’s Defying Gravity, originally performed by Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, came third.
Alfie Boe, the tenor best known for singing Bring Him Home as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, said One Day More ‘resonates to everybody who sings it on stage’.
Bring Him Home, also from the French musical based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel also secured second place
The musical, which was made into a 2012 film starring Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, is the longest-running in the West End.
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