What's Trending 5/16/24: Highly anticipated trailer for "Wicked" is out now

The cinematic adaptation of the Broadway musical had jaws on the ground as fans get a sneak peak of the movie that will release on November 27th
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo at the Met Gala
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#Wicked
o   The trailer for the highly anticipated film with Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda dropped on Wednesday.
o   The cinematic adaptation of the Broadway musical had jaws on the ground as fans got a taste of what is to come.
o   The movie will be split into two different films with the first half released on November 27th and the second part comes out on November 26th, 2025,
o   The story tells the origin of Elphaba and how she became the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.
o   John M. Chu, the director of the film dropped the trailer on what was the birth of L. Frank Baum, the author of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which inspired the novel Wicked by Gregory Maguire in 1995.
o   The movie also stars Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey and Jeff Goldblum, who plays the Wizard of Oz.

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