‘Wicked’ film director unveils first look of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo

Followers have lastly gotten their first take a look at Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo within the Depraved film adaptation.

Director Jon M. Chu revealed the primary look from the film in an Instagram put up shared on Sunday, April sixteenth, 2023.

“You weren’t instructed the entire story. What occurs if you veer off the Yellow Brick Highway? FIRST LOOK of the #WickedMovie … at present in manufacturing in Oz,” Chu wrote on IG.

Within the darkly lit photographs, Erivo is sporting her character, Elphaba’s signature pointy witch hat and broom. The actress commented on Chu’s put up with a number of inexperienced coronary heart emojis, “It’s been great making magic with you.”

In the meantime, within the second shot, Grande is dressed as Glinda, in a putting pink robe as she ascends a staircase.

Common’s movie adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which is predicated on the 1995 novel Depraved: The Life and Occasions of the Depraved Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, was first introduced all the best way again in 2016, per Selection.

A prequel to The Wizard of Oz, Depraved tells the story of every thing that occurred earlier than Dorothy sauntered down that iconic yellow brick street.

The story will revolve across the unlikely friendship between Elphaba, who later turns into the Depraved Witch of the West, and Glinda, referred to as the Good Witch. It additionally reveals how the Depraved Witch bought that pointy hat.

Together with Grande and Erivo, the forged lso contains Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Jeff Goldblum because the Wizard, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible and Ethan Slater as Boq.