Unlimited… our hype for Wicked: For Good is unlimited. Yes folks, with just 58 days remaining between now and the arrival of Jon M. Chu's follow-up to last year's movie musical smash Wicked, excitement for Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and co's imminent return to Oz is at a fever pitch. Hell, here at Empire we've even got a whole, interview stuffed Wicked: For Good world-exclusive issue on its way. And now there's a newly released final trailer for Chu's blockbuster finale, which is set to see Glinda and Elphaba face the darkness — and some very familiar faces — as war comes to Oz and everything is changed, well, for good. Check it out below;
Did someone leave a window open in the office? Because we have got chills. Yeesh! Suffice it to say that if this mammoth three-minute trailer for Wicked: For Good is anything to go by, then it looks like Jon M. Chu wasn't lying when he told Empire last year that his Broadway adaptation's second act is — and we quote — "a doozy."
For fans of the show and all things Oz, this kinda has it all: a Glinda and Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) wedding; Cynthia Erivo pulling off some insane vocal runs and going toe-to-toe with her estranged bestie; Dorothy (who, we now know, will only be seen from afar here) hitting the yellow brick road with the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Lion; and an emotional dam primed to burst as Elphie, now fully in her Wicked Witch era thanks to Madam Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) and the Wizard's (Jeff Goldblum) propaganda, asks her old friend to see her through the eyes of the baying mob. Oh, and there's also a Shiz load of flying monkeys, a cavalry charge, and more iconic musical moments than you can shake a pair of jazz hands — or a pointy hat and gnarled broomstick — at. Of course.
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Will Elphaba and Glinda's bond withstand the war for Oz? What role may Dorothy and her misfit trio of friends have to play in events unfolding? And is Stephen Schwartz a dead cert for Oscar glory with not one but two new musical numbers — Glinda's 'Girl In The Bubble' and Elphie's 'No Place Like Home' — locked and loaded for Grande and Erivo to blast into our ears? Technically, if you've watched The Wizard Of Oz or been to see Wicked on stage, then you know the answers to two of those questions already. But for the full story, on the biggest screen possible, we'll catch you at the IMAX when Wicked: For Good hits cinemas on 21 November. Until then, you can read all about it in the new issue of Empire — on sale Thursday 25 September. (You can still order your copy online here.)