Hollywood’s actors are currently on strike as called by the Screen Actors Guild last week, and it’s affecting the Land of Oz. Universal’s Wicked movies had been filming in London since last year, but in light of the SAG-AFTRA strike it’s one of many movie and TV productions that have stopped rolling cameras. Following the news, we now know how close the movie musicals were to wrapping when the strike was called thanks to Stephen Schwartz.
Stephen Schwartz, a composer who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical along with serving as a co-writer on the Wicked movie scripts, recently shared where the movies were at when it paused production. In his words:
