Today brings some long-awaited good news for fans of Wicked, however, as Universal has officially set a 2019 release date for the project.
THR reports that the studio has set a December 20, 2019 release date for Wicked, their film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical which originally starred Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.
The musical is based on Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which offers a reimagined origin story of the famous antagonist from The Wizard of Oz.
The tale is told from the perspective of Elphaba, a green-skinned, misunderstood witch who forms an unlikely friendship with a fellow witch named Glinda.