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'Wicked' movie musical in the works at Universal Pictures

By Karen Butler
"Wicked" alum Idina Menzel attends American Film Institute's 44th Life Achievement Award gala tribute to composer John Williams in Los Angeles on June 9, 2016. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
"Wicked" alum Idina Menzel attends American Film Institute's 44th Life Achievement Award gala tribute to composer John Williams in Los Angeles on June 9, 2016. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., June 17 (UPI) -- Universal Pictures has announced it will release a movie version of the stage musical Wicked on Dec. 20, 2019.

No casting has been revealed yet for the project.

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The original, Broadway ensemble for the now 13-year-old show starred Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth and Joel Grey.

Stephen Daldry is to helm the film adaptation of the musical, which is based on Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West -- an alternative telling of L. Frank Baum's classic Wizard of Oz stories.

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