Wicked director Jon M. Chu reveals what separates his version of the musical from its original Broadway iteration.
fans have been waiting decades to see the hit Broadway musical receive the big-screen Hollywood treatment. When he sat down and began developing his new, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo-led adaptation of the musical, though,wasn’t going to be as simple as just transposing the Broadway version of it onto a Hollywood soundstage.
“As we were picking it apart, we realized, ‘Oh, you know, in the show, the audience is part of Oz because you walk into a theatre and this green girl drops in, and she’s the odd one out, so she becomes sort of the joke,’” Chu explained. “In the movie, the audience is different. You have to accept the world that you’re being presented and we have a musical world with dancing.
He continued, “I just wanted to fulfill those moments, and emotionally there are a lot of moments, like what happens when actually move into the dorm room for the first time, that not done in song. … To me, those were really fun elements to just sort of flesh out, and I think as a movie audience you actually need that.”When Will We See the Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer?
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