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Playing Maureen? XD I think we're a bit beyond that, hun.

Wicked into a musical; what rumours have you been hearing?

Wicked is still a giant, world-wide phenominon of a musical. To release a movie right now would be fruitless. I'm fairly sure that a movie of Wicked will be released, but, like RENT, not until they have squeezed as much money as possible out of the show. When tickets sales begin to fall in five, ten, who knows, twenty years, then we will see a Wicked: The Movie being released.

So, seeing as Idina is already much older than Elphaba the character, I don't think we'll be seeing Idina in the film, no.

I have already addressed this on the Wicked Guild, and I'll say it again. Steven Schwartz stated on playbill.com a few months ago that there are NO plans for a Wicked movie ANYTIME in the near future. As for the Kristin and Idina rumors about it... I have also been told by a reliable inside source that yes, Idina and Kristin had it in there original Wicked contracts that if a movie was produced, they would be considered for their respective roles, BUT there was nothing that guarantied the roles to them. Only that they would be considered. In my opinion, they are far to old play the parts one SCREEN. Stage and screen are totally different genres

Like Ariies, you need to look at it from the producers’ points of few. They are still making money on the show on stages all around the world. They will milk it on stage for YEARS until they can't get anything else out of it before they think movie. It will come at a point when they need to put new life into the stage show with a movie.

Rent took nearly 10 years to cross over to film, Phantom of the Opera even longer. It will be at LEAST that long before a Wicked one comes out.

I agree with the folks who say there probably won't be a movie until the stage show is losing steam, but not for monetary reasons. Instead, I think (hope) that producers will look at the example of the movie version of Annie which was either so bad or received so poorly that it affected the stage version so negatively that it ended up closing within a year!

alright. thanks guys ^.^

as for idina-and-kirsten-onscreen for the movie: look what they did for RENT. I think she could still do it... but i appear to be in the minority there.

very true. didn't think of that.
I guess they could use one actress for Shiz and Idina for the runaway.

Also, i wonder if they would base it on the movie or the musical...

Yes, Demi Moore purchased the rights to the book WAY back around the time the book first came out. She wanted to produce it with herself as Elphaba but the production never took off.



I know I'm about to get killed for this but... she DID looked WAY to old for the character in the Rent movie. They ALLLL did except for the new cast members. I'm sorry, I'm a Renthead and I love the original cast, but I'm not gonna lie. Of the original cast the only one I thought was good was Jesse.



Pay two actresses to play the same part? Yeah right. They'd never use two actresses for the same character when the age difference is that close together. If it was the book, then I'd say yes two actresses because that is a drastic change in time, but the musical is only a few years. Five, six years tops. Why would they waste that money?

Well, Stockard Channing was 35 when she played Rizzo, so you can never be too sure about them casting someone too old for a high school role. Though I still hope that they would get a different person who's a much better actress to play Elphaba, though Kristen Chenoweth is certainly short and high pitched enough to reprise her role.