Do you know any websites where you can find out who might play the characters in the Wicked movie?

Question

I'm just curious

Answer 1

i heard from the grape vine that the origanal cast is doing it and that is why they all have their back ups doing the shows but idk! if you find out email me

Answer 2

Hopefully no one yet. Beyond the fact that it may not be open to film rights, and is still popular in the stage sense, I suspect it shouldn't ethically be considered for the popcorn crowd yet.

Answer 3

The movie isn't planned for any earlier than 2014. Sure, there's speculation, but no official cast has been confirmed. Most likely anyone who has been in the musical will be considered before they open the auditions to the general public. Two new productions are opening in 2009: Mexico and San Francisco, California. They have enough to worry about as is with the musical. And the musical is doing so well that if Universal even hinted they were starting plans for the movie it would be ludicrous.

From interviews with Gregory Maguire, the author of Wicked, basis for the musical, earlier this year.

Interview#1 9 March 2008

According to Maguire, there are plans to bring out a film version of “Wicked” in the year 2014. “That’s the 10-year anniversary of its Broadway debut,” he said, “which is exactly what happened when the play ‘Chicago’ came out as a film a few years ago. Since ‘Wicked’ is breaking attendance records all over the world, there’s no need to rush a film out now.”

Interview#2 March 2008 (sometime before the first)

Q: What was your reaction when they first talked to you about your novel Wicked being made into a musical? Has anyone ever asked you about it being made into a film?

GM: Within 10 days of the book's publication in the US, I started to get film offers. I had three and a half years' worth of film scripts, each one of which was worse than the one before!

When that interest began to erode (Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings hadn't come out yet) and the notion of a Broadway play came up instead, really in my heart of hearts I just thought [*singing and leaping from his chair*] 'Broadway!'. What was not to love about it?

There will eventually be a film of Wicked the musical but probably not for four or five years.