Making the stage show Wicked into two movies was controversial enough. Now, because the film versions have been so wildly successful, everyone is imagining what a potential third movie would be like, and one person has a really good idea for it.
Speaking to Deadline, Dana Fox, who co-wrote the script to Wicked: For Good with the writer of the original show, Winnie Holzman, pointed to a specific line at the end of the new film that, she thinks, could be a perfect way to continue the story. If, of course, that even happens. There are currently no plans, but when Wicked: For Good makes almost $200 million this weekend, that could very well change.
The line is from the very end of the movie and could be considered a spoiler, so here’s your warning.
In Wicked: For Good, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) fakes her death at the hands of Dorothy (as seen in The Wizard of Oz) and heads to a mysterious place beyond Oz to live with her prince turned scarecrow, Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey). Glinda (Ariana Grande) isn’t made fully aware of the plan, and there’s only a hint that maybe she thinks her friends are still alive. And so, in the film, Elphaba delivers the line “I know she can never know that we’re alive.” It’s left at that as the couple walks into the sunset, but Fox thinks that’s the way into a third movie if it were to take place.
“I would be honored if anyone asked me to be a part of Wicked 3,” Fox said. “And I think that they are such beloved characters that seeing what they were up to, I mean, to me, the moment when Elphaba says in voiceover, ‘I know she can never know that we’re alive.’ I was like, somebody feels like they’re asking to find out that they are alive at some point. That feels really like, ‘Hello.’ That’s spicy to me. I love the idea that we could meet up with them again someday.”
Which again, isn’t currently scheduled to happen, but one never knows. That goes especially if you look back at the original source material. Before the movies, most of us knew Wicked as this wildly successful Broadway show. But the show was based on a 1995 book by Gregory Maguire, which itself had multiple sequels. The musical already differed quite significantly from Maguire’s books, but the source material does exist with plenty of ideas of where Elphaba and Glinda go next.
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