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Wicked movie gets new Christmas 2021 release date

February 10, 2019 by Gary Collinson

Back in 2016, Universal Pictures announced that it was working on a big screen adaptation of Wicked, the smash hit stage musical which reimagines L. Frank Baum’s classic tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with the studio setting a Christmas 2019 release date for the film.

Last September, Wicked creator Stephen Schwartz – who is scripting the film with Winnie Holzman (Jerry Maguire) for director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot) – revealed that the project was “100 percent” happening but would not arrive this year, and now comes word that Universal has given it a new date of December 22nd 2021.

Wicked is a retelling of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches, and has grossed over $1.3 billion at the theatre box office since its launch 15 years ago. The new release date for the movie puts it in competition with Avatar 3, along with an as-yet-untitled Disney live-action movie, and an untitled Warner Bros. animated feature.

Via Variety

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Wicked

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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