Director Jon M. Chu has shared why some facets of Wicked don’t match with the 1939 prequel, The Wizard of Oz.
However, the Ariana Grande and Cyntia Erivo starrer is an adaptation of Dorothy Gale outdated musical, nonetheless there are some things within the movie which doesn’t make any sense.
While speaking to Variety, Jon opened why he didn’t use the unique Ruby slippers and why the Yellow Brick Road didn’t look the identical because the earlier movie. According to him, there have been some boundaries whereas making Wicked.
“We had boundaries of what we might reference or not,” added the filmmaker.
“We by no means use the ruby slippers. Nessa has on crystal slippers as within the L Frank Baum e-book [The Wizard of Oz], Gregory Maguire e-book [Wicked] and the stage present.”
The Now You See Me 2 director went on to say: “I do not assume the phrase ‘yellow brick street’ is copywritten, however undoubtedly the form of the street is.”
“We could not do the spiral. We needed to do a circle that continues to point out it isn’t the place the street ends.”
Wicked is a musical portraying the characters of Elphaba, the evil witch and Glinda, the great witch.
