![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, who knows! Andrew Lloyd Webber helped with the Cats movie too, and we know how well that went. The fact that Schwartz and Holzman will be writing the adaptation is great news, because it means that any changes will be handled by the people who first adapted Wicked and should therefore feel “in keeping” with the show’s vision. Will there be any big differences between the musical and the movie? Chu would direct-he recently directed the adaptation of In the Heights, which fared better than Cats but still doesn’t show a great trend for Hollywood musicals, tbh-with Schwartz and Holzman adapting the screenplay. In early 2021, the production announced John M. Which, fair! Cats, which ended up in the release date vacated by the would-be Wicked adaptation, was such an absolute trainwreck of a film that it caused the musical’s writer Andrew Lloyd Webber to have to get a therapy dog. By 2016, production was aiming for a 2019 release, but then a couple things happened: First, scheduling got wonky, as it tends to with pictures that have been in the pipeline for awhile and second, Cats came out and made everyone doubt the wisdom of even trying to bring beloved musicals to the big screen. In 2012, Universal announced it was going to make the movie with Stephen Daldry directing, according to Polygon. It’s been a surprisingly long road to the Wicked onto the big screen. A post shared by Cynthia Erivo (opens in new tab) ![]()
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