With just a month now until Wicked: For Good concludes Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway play, Universal has made the major announcement that Colman Domingo (Four Seasons) is voicing the Cowardly Lion, along with the release of a new batch of character posters for the anticipated film.
Domingo’s involvement was revealed in a video on Instagram with the actor surrounded by stuffed animal lions. The Lion’s role comes as Wicked: For Good will feature a flipped perspective of The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy and her companions have been teased in the opening of the first film as well as For Good‘s many trailers, showing Dorothy taking a backseat as the main story between Elphaba and Glinda unfolds.
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The Cowardly Lion also made a brief cameo in Wicked as a baby cub Elphaba and Fiyero rescued from captivity, showing how became a literal scaredy cat after the Wizard’s propaganda against speaking animals and having to fend for himself at such a young age.
The batch of posters showcase the main cast with some subtle hints to the fates of a couple of the characters and their iconic roles in the original Wizard of Oz. Check them out below…
Directed once again by award-winning director Jon M. Chu and starring the spectacular returning cast, led by Academy Award® nominated superstars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, the final chapter of the untold story of the witches of Oz begins with Elphaba and Glinda estranged and living with the consequences of their choices.
Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her fight for the freedom of Oz’s silenced Animals and desperately trying to expose the truth she knows about The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).
Glinda, meanwhile, has become the glamorous symbol of Goodness for all of Oz, living at the palace in Emerald City and reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. Under the instruction of Madame Morrible (Oscar® winner Michelle Yeoh), Glinda is deployed to serve as an effervescent comfort to Oz, reassuring the masses that all is well under the rule of The Wizard.
As Glinda’s stardom expands and she prepares to marry Prince Fiyero (Olivier award winner and Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey) in a spectacular Ozian wedding, she is haunted by her separation from Elphaba. She attempts to broker a conciliation between Elphaba and The Wizard, but those efforts will fail, driving Elphaba and Glinda only further apart. The aftershocks will transform Boq (Tony nominee Ethan Slater) and Fiyero forever, and threaten the safety of Elphaba’s sister, Nessarose (Marissa Bode), when a girl from Kansas comes crashing into all their lives.
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they are to change themselves, and all of Oz, for good.
Wicked: For Good features Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Sharon D. Clarke and Colman Domingo.
Wicked: For Good flies into cinemas worldwide on November 21st, 2025.
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