Wicked: Part Two Is Coming to Cinemas Early

Wicked: Part Two, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, will arrive in theaters earlier than planned. The second instalment of the highly anticipated two-part movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, will now be released on November 21, 2025, instead of Thanksgiving eve, November 26.

With its new release date, the movie avoids opening against Disney's Zootopia 2. The move is similar to the one Universal Pictures made earlier this year: Wicked: Part One, initially slated for release on December 25, 2024, switched to a Thanksgiving release date, likely to avoid opening against Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King, which features songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Wicked: Part One and Wicked: Part Two feature Erivo as Elphaba, Grande as Glinda, Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero, Jeff Goldblum as the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Ethan Slater as Boq and Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible. It is directed by Jon M. Chu, who also helmed the movie adaptation of In the Heights, from a screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz, the creators of the Broadway show.

Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, Wicked is a revisionist retelling of the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, following the friendship of green-skinned, ostracized Elphaba and blonde, popular Galinda.

The movie also stars Marissa Bode as Nessarose, Bowen Yang as Pfannee, Bronwyn James as ShenShen, Keala Settle as Miss Coddle (a new character created for the film), Aaron Teoh as Averic, Colin Michael Carmichael as Professor Nikidik and Adam James as Glinda's father. 

Check out the latest trailer below.