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What are you wearing to the Gladiator II–Wicked Part One double feature?

We get to see Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba and Ariana Grande’s Galinda (pre-name change) become roommates and frenemies, but how are we supposed to know they hate each other without a rousing introductory song that rivals Kendrick Lamar levels of disdain? “As we prepared this production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story of WICKED into a single film without doing some real damage to it,” Chu said in a statement posted to social media on April 26, 2022. The first Wicked movie will now be released a week early, on November 22, the same day as Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, and Denzel Washington.

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