Wicked: For Good movie, sequel to Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s musical hit, trailer out; check release date

The trailer of Wicked: For Good, the new instalment of the Wicked franchise has been released. The sequel to the 2024 super hit musical starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo comes a year after Wicked took the global box office by surprise. The movie is set to be released in cinemas on November 21, 2025.

Both films narrate the origin stories of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, played by Erivo, and Glinda the Good, played by Grande, from The Wizard of Oz, according to the news website WHO. Wicked: For Good is based on the second act of the 2003 stage musical Wicked.

The musical hit was an adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel which carried the same name. It was in turn based on the story first told in L Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, adapted into the 1939 film starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale.

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In the trailer of Wicked: For Good, Elphaba can be seen in hiding for opposing the Wizard’s regime. She also teases the arrival of Dorothy, who kills Elphaba with a bucket of water in The Wizard of Oz. However, the name of the actor who will play Dorothy has not been revealed yet.

Impossible to make Wicked into one movie: Director Jon M Chu

Director of the movie, Jon M Chu, has said that it was “impossible” to make Wicked into one film “without doing some real damage to it,” The Guardian reported. Both films were cut simultaneously during the editing process before the first film was released in 2024

Chu said that the decisions to try and cut songs or trim characters started to feel like fatal compromises to the source material that entertained people for so many years. “We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one Wicked movie but two,” he said, according to The Guardian.

Wicked grossed US$755m worldwide on a US$150m budget, becoming the highest-grossing musical film adaptation made to date and landing 10 nominations at the Academy Awards – including best picture – and winning two.

Along with Erivo and Grande as the main characters in the movie, Wicked: For Good also stars Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard of Oz.