There is a ton to unpack, I have been slacking when it comes to covering this upcoming musical event. The movie is one of the biggest musicals of all time, I am so far behind that this is the latest poster, and the last time I covered this topic, there was one poster and there are now more than ten. There have also been some clips, trailers, and information given. So even though I have not been covering this in the most detail, I wanted to talk about a couple of the most recent pieces of news that dropped as we are now about a month off from the film release.
The first thing I wanted to address is at the top of this post. It is a recreation of the classic Wicked poster as many musical fans can see. I am okay with this, but it does feel like the marketing team is trying so hard to make this movie as big as possible by harkening back and showing they know where this product orginated, most of the recent YouTube videos label it as "The musical event". The problem is that it is trying to recreate and be new at the same time and by doing that, it falls short as both. And speaking of making something as big as possible...
Interviews and press releases have now revealed that the run time of this movie will be two hours and forty minutes, which is just five minutes short of BOTH acts of the stage version with an intermission included. This movie is part one of two and that run time is concerning, to say the least. Wondering if there would be new songs which is less of a possibility because the album that is dropping the same day the film premieres does not show any new songs. There is a chance the new songs are hidden and will appear online or on a CD later, and are just not included to have them be special for the movie, or an expanded album could be dropped later. This is a small chance we could only see the song list of songs we are familiar with and we could get some surprises, or it could be a faithful adaptation, which the latter is what I am leaning towards.
Finally, there was a new trailer, one that focused on showing songs, namely "Popular", "Dancing Through Life", "What Is This Feeling" and of course "Defying Gravity". The choreography and visuals looked amazing, the director of this film did the film version of "In The Heights" and the musical performances along with the visuals were the strongest part of that film. What was shown looked good and will probably be performed well both in a musical sense and visually, the shots looked dynamic and grand, fitting for such a huge musical.
I am excited and concerned, excited by what I have seen, and even seeing the post replicated shows a deep respect for the source material. My concern is the run time and if things are going to be padded out, overexplained or just extended, only because it as almost as long as BOTH acts of the orginal. This is a part one, and that makes me wonder how long part two will be, and what may be added and expanded there. This looks like the musical segements are going to be great, and with that run time, unlike "In The Heights", it does not seem many if any songs will be excluded. The visuals look breath taking whetehr in moments of music or in pure display, and the singing so far, sounds good.
There is alot to hope for in this movie, there are just a couple things that coneern me, that I hope wash away by the time the final note is struck and credits roll. I really hope my doubts are proven wrong and this is a truly great movie, I am hoping.
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