New ‘Wicked: For Good’ Clip of Elphaba Visiting Glinda on Wedding Day–No Use of Digital Effects for Tin Man and Scarecrow
Wicked For Good hits cinemas November 21, but director Jon M. Chu dropped by the London Film Fest on Friday (Oct. 10) to offer special sneak peak of the follow-up to Universal’s smash hit musical adaptation.
The director debuted a new clip for the audience of his LFF for Free talk, featuring Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) visiting Glinda (Ariana Grande) on her wedding day.
The tease sees the two secretly reunite after the events of “Defying Gravity,” with Glinda dressed in sparkling white gown, as Elphaba is being hunted down by the Wizard’s flying monkeys. A teary Glinda pleads with Elphaba to talk things out with the Wizard, but before she can finish her appeal, Elphaba is gone.
As for the song “For Good,” which the sequel gets its title from, Chu said that Erivo and Grande’s performance of it is “the most beautiful emotional version of it I’ve ever heard in my life.”
“That song is about literally what they’re doing with their eyes,” Chu said of shooting the “For Good” scene. “It’s the most covered song, it’s the song that everybody has heard many, many times and many different versions, but the advantage that we have in this is that you know these characters.”
Chu initially filmed the “For Good” scene with “sweeping” shots, and had it in the cut like that for seven months. But “it never sat right,” he said, revealing that he opted for a much more “intimate” feel.
Chu also teased his next project after Oz, a film adaptation of another hit stage music, this time Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolur Dreamcoat.
“It’s something I hold dear to my heart, made for Amazon Studios and reuniting me with “In the Heights” producer Scott Sanders. “It’s my favorite show, but it’s a hard one to preconceive for now and [decide] how to do it with the tone. I love it so much and I think we’ve cracked something in there that’s really fun.”
