I haven’t read any other works from novelist Gregory Maguire but “Wicked” was a wonderfully enjoyable read. A revisionist take on “The Wizard of Oz”, it outlined the so-called wicked witch’s life and I must admit that from her perspective, she was badly wronged. So much for that Dorothy girl getting all the attention and poor green-skin afflicted Elphaba being a bad seed; she’s just misunderstood!
I never quite figured out how Maguire’s brilliant novel skipped the movie bandwagon and went direct to Broadway musical but it seems that a movie was never completely written off and now that the story has captured millions of adoring musical fans, a movie adaptation has been announced.
The film is only mentioned in passing among a long list of other projects on the go for producer Marc Platt (and it’s not the only one that could be interesting) but details are limited at the moment. There’s no mention on who will direct or star or even if this will be a musical adaptation or if they will simply take Maguire’s original novel and adapt that for the screen. I haven’t seen the musical but considering how wildly successful it’s been, I’m willing to bet it’s pretty good. Either way, it should make for a fun trip to the movies.
I’m starting to think we need to find a young woman to replace the huge gap which has been left by Julie Andrews and the wholly unnecessary growing up business.
