Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey also appears in the cast, playing Fiyero Tigelaar, while Jeff Goldblum will play The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Michelle Yeoh will play Madame Morrible.
Wicked is directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), with the screen adaptation by Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz.
Plans for Wicked to get the cinema treatment have been going on for years, with multiple setbacks since it was first announced in 2017.
It was put on hold in 2018 due to production scheduling, and then again in 2020 amid the Covid pandemic.
After locking in key cast in late 2021, filming was supposed to start in mid-2022, before further delays ensued when Chu decided the movie should be split into two parts.
“As we prepared the production over the last year, it became impossible to wrestle the story of Wicked into a single film without doing some real damage to it,” he wrote on Twitter.
“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.
“We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one Wicked movie, but two! With more space, we can tell the story of Wicked as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys for these beloved characters.”
Principal filming officially began in December last year.
Wicked: Part One will be released in November 2024, while Part Two will be released a year later.
