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Universal Pictures\u2019 musical fantasy sequel appears poised to match or exceed its predecessor\u2019s impressive showing at the Academy Awards, based on the first social media reactions that were shared on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Director Jon M. Chu<\/a>\u2019s \u201cWicked: For Good<\/a>,\u201d written by Winnie Holzman<\/a> and Dana Fox<\/a>, continues the story begun in 2024\u2019s \u201cWicked<\/a>,\u201d which adapted the first act of the hit 2003 Broadway musical by Stephen Schwartz<\/a> and Holzman. The follow-up adapts the second act, exploring the aftermath of Elphaba and Glinda<\/a>\u2019s diverging paths \u2014 one as the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, the other as the beloved Glinda the Good.<\/p>\n The film\u2019s Oscar prospects look strong enough to repeat last year\u2019s 10 nominations, cementing the two-part adaptation as a genuine awards powerhouse, based on the most passionate reactions that have trickled in.<\/p>\n Deadline awards writer…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is it time for \u201cWicked\u201d to conquer the Oscars, for good? Universal Pictures\u2019 musical fantasy sequel appears poised to match or exceed its predecessor\u2019s impressive showing at the Academy Awards, based on the first social media reactions that were shared on Monday night. Director Jon M. Chu\u2019s \u201cWicked: For Good,\u201d written by Winnie Holzman and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2119744,"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-2119743","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\/\u2018Wicked-For-Good-Poised-to-Cast-Another-Spell-on-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119743","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=2119743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119745,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119743\/revisions\/2119745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}