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For five years, he lived inside L. Frank Baum<\/a>\u2019s universe \u2014 shaping two films, welcoming three new children, and guiding an army of actors and craftspeople through one of the decade\u2019s most scrutinized adaptations. Yet when Chu<\/a> speaks now, he avoids talk of scale, spectacle or box office. Instead, he returns to responsibility, trust and the emotional architecture required to shepherd a story as fiercely protected and beloved as \u201cWicked<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you live with something for five-plus years, and you dream about it and wake up with nightmares right in front of you, it sticks with you,\u201d Chu says during the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast. \u201cI have not processed it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n Listen below!<\/p>\n Much has already been written about the mechanics \u2014 the split structure, the risk of adaptation, the evolution of Oz. But in conversation,…<\/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":" Jon M. Chu did not simply direct \u201cWicked: For Good.\u201d He governed a small nation. For five years, he lived inside L. Frank Baum\u2019s universe \u2014 shaping two films, welcoming three new children, and guiding an army of actors and craftspeople through one of the decade\u2019s most scrutinized adaptations. Yet when Chu speaks now, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2188755,"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":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2188754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","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\/12\/Jon-M-Chu-on-the-Creative-Courage-Behind-\u2018Wicked-For.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188754","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=2188754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188756,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188754\/revisions\/2188756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}