With the primary Depraved: For Good trailer launched on-line, the forthcoming film is aiming to be as well-liked as the primary one.
Common Footage shared the trailer for director Jon M. Chu‘s function that hits theaters Nov. 21 and stars Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba. The actresses graced the CinemaCon stage in April for the studio’s presentation to exhibitors, the place the Depraved: For Good footage was initially screened.
Depraved: For Good facilities on the 2 witches dealing with the results of their earlier selections and its impression on their friendship. The footage teases the primary have a look at Dorothy, albeit with out revealing her face, and likewise consists of the yellow brick street, a marriage and no scarcity of flying monkeys.
“Elphaba, they’re coming for you,” Glinda warns close to the top of the trailer.
Rounding out the forged are Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Michelle Yeoh and Jeff Goldblum. Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox penned the script for the challenge that counts Marc Platt and David Stone as producers.
The 2-part function adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway smash had been lengthy within the works after the stage model debuted in 2003. The primary Depraved movie hit theaters final November and soared to almost $750 million on the international field workplace, making it the top-grossing Broadway adaptation ever.
Loosely primarily based on creator Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Depraved: The Life and Occasions of the Depraved Witch of the West, the stage musical Depraved tells the story of The Wizard of Oz’s characters earlier than Dorothy’s arrival. It stays a Broadway sensation, with ticket gross sales surging following the success of the primary film. Final 12 months’s movie collected two Oscar wins from 10 nominations.
Platt, the prolific producer behind each the stage and movie variations, defined throughout a PGA occasion earlier this 12 months that he was initially hesitant to separate the display adaptation into two separate options.
“I keep in mind going to the films as a child and watching musicals or Lawrence of Arabia that had intermissions in it, and that was really my dream for Depraved, that we may do it with intermission,” Platt mentioned on the time. “That was one battle I misplaced.”