Transcript

Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Is a Wicked Prequel Coming? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

0:00
Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest Wicked for Good, the
0:04
Speaker 1: second installment of the OZ based franchise, is a smash,
0:08
Speaker 1: adding to its tally with more than ninety million bucks
0:11
Speaker 1: over the past weekend.
0:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like two hundred and seventy million in the
0:14
Speaker 2: States now and almost four hundred million globally.
0:18
Speaker 3: Wicked really is a phenomenon. But obviously this is now
0:21
Speaker 3: the end of the story as far as the musical
0:23
Speaker 3: and book it's based on goes.
0:25
Speaker 4: Gregory wrote the original nineteen ninety five book Wicked that
0:28
Speaker 4: inspired the Broadway musical. He announced a prequel novel, Glinda
0:32
Speaker 4: A Charmed Childhood, So Get.
0:34
Speaker 5: Ready, which he's calling a sister volume to Elfie A
0:38
Speaker 5: Wicked Childhood, which he published in March, about Alphaba's early years.
0:42
Speaker 3: And we know that Universal, who produced the movies, has
0:45
Speaker 3: already made it clear they'd love to expand the Wicked
0:48
Speaker 3: universe but aren't sure how to exactly.
0:50
Speaker 4: Both the Arian and Grande and Cynthia Ribo have respectfully
0:53
Speaker 4: hinted at being done playing the characters, so a prequel
0:56
Speaker 4: movie could make an awful lot of sense. And everybody
0:59
Speaker 4: has Wicked fever. Wicked for Good is now playing.
1:03
Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.