Immoral fans won’t prefer to aid too prolonged to return to the fabulous land of Oz.
The 2d film in Jon M. Chu’s two-half on-show shroud adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical is determined to hit theaters Nov. 21, 2025, nearly exactly a 365 days after Immoral was released. Immoral: Piece Two will look the witches of Oz, Ariana Grande‘s Galinda — a.ok.a Glinda the Finest Witch — and Cynthia Erivo‘s Elphaba — a.ok.a. the Immoral Witch of the West — continuing the place the narrative that began with the first film.
Immoral, which arrived in theaters Nov. 22, had the best likely opening for a musical adaptation with an estimated $114 million on the domestic box place of business. (Grande and Erivo, despite an unverified online rumor, had been paid equal for their show-stopping starring roles.) The flicks are in accordance with the 2003 musical of the the same name, which was on the starting up place in accordance with the most involving-promoting unique by Gregory Maguire.
Immoral tells the untold narrative of the witches of Oz. Winnie Holzman, the stage production’s e book author, wrote the screenplay for Chu’s movie with Dana Fox. Academy Award-a hit composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz adapted the musical for the show shroud. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth originated the roles of Elphaba and Glinda on Broadway (they customarily regarded in shock cameos all the diagram thru the “One Quick Day” sequence).
Immoral ended with Erivo’s alarm-interesting performance of the stage show’s most effectively-identified musical amount, “Defying Gravity.” Since “Defying Gravity” served as the live of the Broadway show’s first act, this Immoral ending helped to usher in Chu’s imaginative and prescient to spoil Act 1 and Act 2 into separate films.
Chu’s Immoral stayed simply to the stage musical, that contains shrimp to no adjustments to the narrative’s overall discipline. Though there may perhaps be not a legitimate affirmation but on how closely the storyline of the 2d film will align with the show’s 2d act, Chu spoke to The Hollywood Reporter before the film’s release to share insight on his imaginative and prescient.
“We knew we didn’t are looking out for to pull the movie a ways from the show to this point that it wasn’t the show that I loved,” he talked about of the movie-making job. “We started speaking about, what numbers are you able to lower to fetch it in? And the amount of numbers it’s important to lower to fetch this narrative in is steady no longer plausible. You wish the entire songs, so you’re going to lower dancing. Which of them? Repeat me which of them and we’ll effect it. It steady grew to change into very obvious that we had to carry out a chance. We went backward and ahead, are we making a three-and-a-half-hour movie that cuts off all these objects? Are we doing one after the other? And if we’re doing one after the other, then now we prefer to make certain that that that movie is emotionally shapely so it doesn’t feel devour we’re stopping in the center of a narrative. … All of us agreed that we had been splitting it.”
He continued, “And we chanced on that that room was significant. Because in the event you’re going to, I don’t know, per chance live to dispute the tale a ‘Defying Gravity,’ let’s advise, then you positively’ve got Elphaba that ought to be the most pivotal moment of her life. So then it’s important to position of residing up Elphaba extra than per chance the show does. You wish to seem what her childhood was devour. … And the diagram in which effect you carry out that friendship? Within the medium of movie, you name bullshit on issues so immediate, it’s important to have the time and the home to agree with in that relationship. And you’ve got a narrator of Galinda that wraps all of it together, that objects up issues for movie two. So all this stuff are steady loads, and I believe we chanced on a wonderful balance in it.”
Chu and the team shot both films together. “We shot both films over 160 days and obtained stopped 10 days before finishing [because of the strike] our ‘Defying Gravity’ and flying days,” he informed THR.
The team achieved up the 10 days of production on the starting up of this 365 days. Because the films had been shot together, the solid remains the the same for both films.
Immoral‘s 2d act takes a darker flip from the vivid poppy moments in the first act. “Defying Gravity,” in both the stage musical and film, serves as the moment that Elphaba “transforms” into the Immoral Witch of the West that Wizard of Oz fans know, with the added context that the Wizard and her mentor, Madame Morrible, performed in the film by Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh, respectively, have branded her “rude” after she refused to aid their discipline to strip rights a ways from the animals in Oz. Elphaba and Glinda, who spent the first act and film becoming chums against all odds, lunge their separate programs as Elphaba chooses to insurgent against the Wizard and Glinda stays on the aid of.
Here’s how the narrative then continues in the stage musical — spoiler alert for new moviegoers!
Act 2 takes spot parallel to the events of the distinctive Wizard of Oz. It begins with Glinda, now formally dubbed Glinda the Finest, and Fiyero, portrayed by Jonathan Bailey, now captain of the wizard’s guard, speaking with the general public of Ozas officers for the Wizard. Morrible, who tells a fully counterfeit account of the show’s first act finale, announces that Fiyero and Glinda are engaged to peaceful a crowd timid about the Immoral Witch. Fiyero serene cares for Elphaba and leaves as a result of the group’s deplorable comments.
Elphaba visits her sister, Nessarose, performed by Marissa Bode in the film, who has change into the governor of Munchkinland. Nessa has taken away the Munchkins’ rights to fetch Boq, portrayed by Ethan Slater in the film, to conclude with her. Elphaba enchants their mother’s jeweled footwear allowing Nessa to inch, but Boq serene rejects her. A spell long previous fallacious, which Nessa blames on Elphaba, turns Boq into the Tin Man.
The Wizard once extra offers Elphaba a chance to join his motive, but she rejects him and Fiyero helps her spoil out from the Wizard, leaving Glinda on the aid of. The pair in the end confess their devour for one every other. Morrible and the Wizard devise a conception to place Nessarose in hazard to fetch Elphaba’s consideration. This kicks off Morrible inflicting the tornado in the Wizard of Ozthat brings Dorothy to Ozand kills Nessarose, a.ok.a. the Immoral Witch of the East.
Glinda and Elphaba reunite and fight over Glinda giving Nessa’s footwear to the woman who has arrived in Oz, Dorothy. At final, the pair carry out up after Glinda warns Elphaba of the conception to abolish her with a highly efficient musical amount, “For Finest.” Elphaba is apparently melted by a bucket of water, her ending in the Wizard of Oz. Glinda tells the Wizard Elphaba was his daughter, kicking him out of Ozand having Morrible arrested for her discipline to abolish Nessarose. Fiyero, who has been grew to change into into the scarecrow after attempting to aid Elphaba earlier in the show, returns to the spot of the melting, releasing Elphaba from a entice door and the pair crawl away together.
Dorothy and her crew may perhaps per chance per chance additionally be viewed in rapid in Immoral‘s first half of the movie, from on the aid of handiest, and in the trailer speaking with the Wizard. The Wizard of Ozcharacter is proven from on the aid of or in silhouette, never explicitly featured in the stage musical.
Leading up to Immoral (Piece Two) arriving in theaters Nov. 21, 2025, THR will substitute this post as extra develops about the 2d movie.
