Universal has already shown us advance looks at Wicked: Part 2
By Dan Selcke
Wicked is now out in movie theaters, and it's a smash hit. The critics love it, audiences love, and it's making a bundle of money. The only bad part is that we have to wait a year until Wicked: Part 2 lands in theaters to wrap up this alternate take on The Wizard of Oz.
Yes, the Wicked movie currently playing in theaters is actually Wicked: Part 1, which adapts the first act of the famous stage musical. Part 2, obviously, will adapt Act 2, and close out the storyies of Elphaba and Glinda. But Universal already revealed a few shots from Wicked: Part 2 in the first teaser for Part 1, released back in February. You can watch it above.
Here's the stuff the teaser gives away, but beware that there are SPOILERS involved:
- The second shot of the teaser is an image of Elphaba putting her hand on a pile of golden bricks, one imagines the same ones used to make the yellow-brick road. We now know that it was her idea to make the road yellow in the first place.
- At 0:30, we see Glinda wearing a wedding dress. In the stage musical Wicked, she plans to get married to Fiyero.
- At 0:38, we see a few shots of Dorothy, the hero of the original The Wizard of Oz, speaking to the wizard alongside her companions. Wicked is mostly about Elphaba and Glinda, and Dorothy and company will be a bigger part of the second movie; if it progresses like the play, their story will play out in the background. In these shots, Dorothy is wearing silver slippers rather than ruby slippers, which is more true to the original book.
- At 0:50, we see a shot of Glinda in her magical bubble, but in the city of Oz this time.
Then there's this shot, which doesn't appear anywhere in the first movie, although it may have just been cut:
So those are the images that have been released in official press materials. But you can also find little snatches of images from Wicked: Part 2 on the internet if you know where to look. We won't embed them here, but you're free to peruse if interested.
Wicked: Part 2 comes out on November 21, 2025.
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