{"id":2106632,"date":"2025-10-21T20:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2106632"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T20:52:18","slug":"why-jon-m-chu-sees-both-wicked-movies-as-one-epic-like-the-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-jon-m-chu-sees-both-wicked-movies-as-one-epic-like-the-lord-of-the-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jon M. Chu Sees Both \u2018Wicked\u2019 Movies as One Epic, Like \u2018The Lord of the Rings\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director Jon M. Chu<\/a> has spent more than five years bringing the beloved Broadway musical \u201cWicked<\/a>\u201d to the big screen. Now that both installments are complete, he\u2019s reflecting on the epic scope of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is one movie to me,\u201d Chu<\/a> tells Variety during an upcoming episode of the Awards Circuit Podcast, recorded at last weekend\u2019s 13th annual Middleburg Film Festival. \u201cWhen I was thinking of every arc, we were thinking of it as one giant chunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

The same could be said for this \u201cPart One\u201d of Chu\u2019s sprawling, in-depth interview about the musical that consumed the past five years of his life. He began the project as a father of two \u2014 and wrapped as a father of five. In fact, his fifth child was born the day \u201cWicked<\/a>\u201d premiered, preventing him from attending.<\/p>\n

Chu\u2019s assertion firmly places him on one side of a debate that has long intrigued cinephiles,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Director Jon M. Chu has spent more than five years bringing the beloved Broadway musical \u201cWicked\u201d to the big screen. Now that both installments are complete, he\u2019s reflecting on the epic scope of the project. \u201cIt is one movie to me,\u201d Chu tells Variety during an upcoming episode of the Awards Circuit Podcast, recorded at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2106632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Why-Jon-M-Chu-Sees-Both-\u2018Wicked-Movies-as-One.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106634,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106632\/revisions\/2106634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}