'The first question was: one movie or two?' the Wicked director shared in an interview. Part One is out now.
adaptation was going to take up in general. “The first question was: one movie or two?” he shared in a recent interview. This was something Chu was committed to figuring out right from the jump, not something he was forced to confront through bloat or rewrites that expanded the material into a place untenable for just one film.
“I told them, we can’t debate about this every meeting, so let’s make a decision and commit. If we want to change it later, that’s fine,” he continued. “When you come in as the director, there’s like a two-week honeymoon period… You get to set some boundaries.”composer Stephen Schwartz, it sounds like the team did at least attempt to change their minds. “The truth is we tried for some time to make it one movie… but we kept running into two problems,” he wrote,.
This was a controversial decision, of course—one that’s been generating discussion for over two years now. Even today, the date of the film’s long-awaited premiere, the choice has its detractors. “The time-killing sprawl is evident from the jump,” Jesse Hassenger writes in his. “The movie opens not with a concise curtain-raising number, but a mish-mash of exposition, flashbacks, and the musical equivalent of throat-clearing.
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