Wicked: For Good – trailer launched for sequel to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo hit

The first trailer for Wicked: For Good, the sequel to the smash-hit musical starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, has been launched.

The sequel arrives a yr after Wicked stormed the worldwide field administrative center, with each movies telling the starting place tales of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, performed through Erivo, and Glinda the Good, performed through Grande, from The Wizard of Oz.

Wicked: For Good is an adaptation of the second one act of the 2003 level musical Wicked. The musical was once according to Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel of the similar identify – which was once in flip according to the tale first informed in L Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, tailored into the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale.

The trailer for Wicked: For Good displays Elphaba in hiding, for her opposition to the Wizard’s regime, and likewise teases the coming of Dorothy, who famously kills Elphaba with a bucket of water in The Wizard of Oz. The actor who will play Dorothy has now not but been named.

The director, Jon M Chu, has stated it was once “impossible” to make Wicked into one movie “without doing some real damage to it”. Both movies have been minimize concurrently within the enhancing procedure prior to the primary movie’s liberate ultimate yr.

“As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel like fatal compromises to the source material that has entertained us all for so many years,” Chu stated. “We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one Wicked movie but two.”

Wicked grossed US$755m international on a US$150m finances, turning into the highest-grossing musical movie adaptation made to this point and touchdown 10 nominations on the Academy Awards – together with easiest image – and successful two.

Along with Erivo and Grande because the movie’s primary characters, Wicked: For Good additionally stars Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible and Jeff Goldblum because the Wizard of Oz.

Wicked: For Good might be launched in cinemas on 21 November.