Wicked: For Good

Why watch

Starlit Cine editors

• Best for viewers of Wicked (2024); Jon M. Chu directs the sequel.
• Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jonathan Bailey return, adapted from the stage musical Wicked.
• About 2 hours 17 minutes; watch part one first.

Synopsis

Wicked: For Good is a 2025 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The sequel to Wicked (2024), it adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles from the first film. Set in the Land of Oz both before and during a retelling of the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film follows Elphaba and Glinda in their new respective identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

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Director & cast

• J

  Jon M. Chu

  Director

• A

  Ariana Grande

  Galinda / Glinda

• C

  Cynthia Erivo

  Elphaba

• J

  Jonathan Bailey

  Fiyero

• E

  Ethan Slater

  Boq

• J

  Jeff Goldblum

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• M

  Michelle Yeoh

  Madame Morrible

• M

  Marissa Bode

  Nessarose

• B

  Bowen Yang

  Pfannee de Phan Hall