Wicked to be made into a movie

Wicked, one of Broadway’s most recent smash hits (nominated for 10 Tony awards and the winner of 6 Drama Desk awards), is about to made into a movie by Mark Platt Productions. They are still in pre-planning stages and haven’t even decided on a cast yet, so hopefully the plans go through. Personally, I’m hoping that the original cast members Idina Menzel and Kristen Chenoweth will play Elphaba and Glinda, since they did such a wonderful job on Broadway. As for the rest of the characters, the best possible outcome would be the original cast, but that doesn’t always happen (ex. Rent; where Joanne and Mimi were played by newcomers (I liked the movie Mimi better anyhow)). As long as it doesn’t turn out to be something like Les Miserables, where they announced a few times that they were gonna make a movie, and then it didn’t happen (and now the original Broadway and London cast are like… 22 years older . Which at the very least, means no original Gavroche, young Cosette or young Eponine (not that young Eponine is that important, she doesn’t even say anything)). Stay tuned!

~ by damantaray on October 12, 2009.