A number of movie musicals have won Best Picture over the years, and we'll have to see if Jon M. Chu's Wicked: For Good joins those ranks. Wicked's sequel is killing it at the box office, and both franchise and stage show have a ton of fans. And it looks like the property is expanding, as author Gregor Maguire revealed that he's got a Glinda prequel novel coming out next year titled Galinda: A Charmed Childhood. As someone who is a hardcore Wicked fan, I've got complicated feelings about this choice.
I grew up obsessed with the musical, and have been a Wicked Act II apologist from the jump. While I adored seeing the story on the big screen, I'm not sure that it needs to be further expanded. Deadline reported that Maguire's novel is coming next year, and now I'm worried that Universal will end up making a book to screen adaptation that will make Wicked into a full-blown movie franchise.
