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Demi Moore as Elphaba? Original Plans for a ‘Wicked’ Movie in the 1990s Revealed, and ‘Whoopi Goldberg Tried Hard to Get the Rights’
Long before Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, a "Wicked" movie was developed in the late 1990s for Demi Moore starring as Elphaba.
Suzanne Todd was a producer there and told Vanity Fair that “Michelle Pfeiffer, Emma Thompson and Nicole Kidman” were names thrown out to play Glinda. Schwartz noted at the time that Moore was not a singer, explaining: “Oddly enough, Demi had been the speaking voice of Esmeralda in the Disney film ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame.’ She said, ‘I don’t want to do my own singing,’ and we found a soundalike who sang the character’s songs. Woolverton’s script never got off the ground, alas, and Schwartz eventually convinced the rights holders to let him take a stab at writing “Wicked” as a stage musical.
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