If we're going to have actual stars filling all the roles, here's who I'd pick (and for me, they actually have to be able to sing reasonably well)
Elphaba - Anne Hathaway (Acting-wise, I see her playing an awesome Elphie. But singing she'd make a good Galinda, too)
Galinda - Kristen Bell
Fiyero - Jim Sturgess (some might be put off by his accent, but I love his voice!)
Nessa - Emmy Rossum
The Wizard - Peter Gallagher
Madame Morrible - Dame Judi Dench (okay... Morrible doesn't need to sing as well as the rest)
Boq - Zac Efron
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Zac!Boq? Please, no. Fiyero maybe, but Boq, no!
I have one thing to say on the matter:
If Guillermo del Toro directed a movie of the book I will finance it myself.
If Guillermo del Toro directed a movie of the book I will finance it myself.
QUOTE(nerdycool @ Jul 18 2008, 06:41 PM) 
If we're going to have actual stars filling all the roles, here's who I'd pick (and for me, they actually have to be able to sing reasonably well)
Nessa - Emmy Rossum
Boq - Zac Efron
Nessa - Emmy Rossum
Boq - Zac Efron
Please god no.
QUOTE(thegreengirl3 @ Jul 20 2008, 02:02 PM)
Please god no.
Hahaha. I have to agree. Not that they aren't both talented. I actually like both of them a lot but I wouldn't want to see either in Wicked. Zac MAYBE depending on how his acting and everything has matured when the movie will be made... but I don't see Emmy in this one.
Zac is not "munchkinish" enough for Boq. Though, at the same time, he's not manly enough for Fiyero.
^The problem with Zac's acting is that he tends to get very one-sided I think. Sometimes his lines get forced and awkward. Maybe it's just HSM, because he did WAYYYY better in Hairpsray--this is coming from someone who's not a fan of him. I think I could see him as Fiyero, but not now. Definitely not now. He's more of a Melchior right now.
QUOTE(OzianWitch @ Jul 20 2008, 06:15 PM)
^The problem with Zac's acting is that he tends to get very one-sided I think. Sometimes his lines get forced and awkward. Maybe it's just HSM, because he did WAYYYY better in Hairpsray--this is coming from someone who's not a fan of him. I think I could see him as Fiyero, but not now. Definitely not now. He's more of a Melchior right now.
Yeah, I definitely don't see him as Fiyero right now - but in 5 years I think it could potentially happen. I don't see him as Boq so much tho. Boq needs to have a little "Mr.Collins" in Pride&Prejudice to him and I don't see that in him.
Yeah I don't see any Boq within him at all. And right now, he doesn't seem like he could play off let's say ex. Kerry and Kendra very well....
QUOTE(OzianWitch @ Jul 20 2008, 06:26 PM)
Yeah I don't see any Boq within him at all. And right now, he doesn't seem like he could play off let's say ex. Kerry and Kendra very well....
He looks too young right now. I don't know how old Kerry or Kendra are - but it would be an awkward match. At 25 or 26 years old, Zac might be better fit. My choices for the role in the movie were Harry Connick Jr if they go with an older cast (i.e. Idina, Kristen) and maybe James Marsden if they go with a younger cast. Patrick Wilson could also possibly fit the bill although he's already played a similarish role in Phantom...
if they do make a movie...I want the cast to be (lol this is a kicker)
Elphaba: Anne Hathaway ( I think she would be killer in this. many say she doesnt have the voice...but what have we heard her sing in? Ella Enchanted and judging from that I think she could pull it off with some proper vocal training, hades before she became "known" she was studying opera. And we wouldnt have to worry about her acting the part, she would have the sweet sincere part down pat, and have one hades of a witchy Act 2 Elphaba with many layers.)
OOORRR if Anne Hathaway couldnt do it...I think Minnie Driver...man I want her to do Broadway
Glinda: Alison M. (The girl from Phil of the Future) again, she has a very Glinda-esque voice. And her acting is pretty great. She has comedic timing...and her dramatic side (tho not perfect) is def. there, and with some practice she could also pull it off
Fiyero: Hmm, I dont want a teen pop singer in this part, but someone with a modern voice and great acting chops, and who is handsome could play this with ease (if they show layers) I think....the guy who played Corny Collins in the Hairspray movie could fit the part ( I think his name is Elijah?)
Madame Morrible: Maryl Streep...she can play very manipulitive women (Devil Wears Prada anyone?)
The Wizard: Joel Grey...he is the only one who would be age appropriate and be able to act the hades out of this part
Nessarose: Believe it or not...I think Nikki Blonsky would be great in this role. She is very pretty and has a voice. I dont know maybe I am off the target lol
Boq: Elijah Wood...he is pretty dang good.
Elphaba: Anne Hathaway ( I think she would be killer in this. many say she doesnt have the voice...but what have we heard her sing in? Ella Enchanted and judging from that I think she could pull it off with some proper vocal training, hades before she became "known" she was studying opera. And we wouldnt have to worry about her acting the part, she would have the sweet sincere part down pat, and have one hades of a witchy Act 2 Elphaba with many layers.)
OOORRR if Anne Hathaway couldnt do it...I think Minnie Driver...man I want her to do Broadway
Glinda: Alison M. (The girl from Phil of the Future) again, she has a very Glinda-esque voice. And her acting is pretty great. She has comedic timing...and her dramatic side (tho not perfect) is def. there, and with some practice she could also pull it off
Fiyero: Hmm, I dont want a teen pop singer in this part, but someone with a modern voice and great acting chops, and who is handsome could play this with ease (if they show layers) I think....the guy who played Corny Collins in the Hairspray movie could fit the part ( I think his name is Elijah?)
Madame Morrible: Maryl Streep...she can play very manipulitive women (Devil Wears Prada anyone?)
The Wizard: Joel Grey...he is the only one who would be age appropriate and be able to act the hades out of this part
Nessarose: Believe it or not...I think Nikki Blonsky would be great in this role. She is very pretty and has a voice. I dont know maybe I am off the target lol
Boq: Elijah Wood...he is pretty dang good.
QUOTE(degeorgetitanic @ Jul 20 2008, 08:13 PM)
the guy who played Corny Collins in the Hairspray movie could fit the part ( I think his name is Elijah?)
I believe you're talking about James Marsden, but I didn't care for that movie at all so I don't really remember all the characters' names.
Actually, I really like your casting. I love Anne Hathaway, but to me she doesn't look like Elphaba, but they might be able to hide the gentleness of her features. The only one I really don't like is Nikki for Nessa. I don't find her tragically beautiful, I think she's just pretty.
I know I'm in a little bit of a Mamma Mia! kick, but Meryl Streep would make a PERFECT Morrible imo. I could also picture Amanda Seyfried as Nessa.
I am also on a Mamma Mia kick, but Amanda Seyfried is tiny and cute like a Glinda should be
All I have to say on the matter is:
Morrible - Dawn French.
Morrible - Dawn French.
I have no idea who that is 
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QUOTE(dustomino @ Jul 25 2008, 01:15 PM)
I have no idea who that is .
.Dustin you need to call her up on You Tube to see what a fantastic comedian she is. If you have BBC America on your cable or whatever you can watch her talents there. She's absolutely hilarious! You might even remember seeing her as the "Fat Lady in the Painting" in HP & the Prisoner of Azkaban.
her!
I was reading about the Wicked movie and saw that Kristin said that she would love to play Glinda, but think's she'll be too old by the time the movie is being made. Kristin isn't too old!
QUOTE(Erin1236 @ Jul 30 2008, 10:27 AM)
I was reading about the Wicked movie and saw that Kristin said that she would love to play Glinda, but think's she'll be too old by the time the movie is being made. Kristin isn't too old!
The only way Kristin could play Glinda in the movie is if they use her for the bubble scenes and then flashback to a younger actress for the other stuff (which would be way too cheesy). Kristin is most definitely too old to play a convincing Shiz student.
meh...i think that she could still play her, the wonders that can be done with makeup and editing
Don't forget about the wonders of digital and make-up enhancement. They can do just about anything in Hollywood. They make older people look younger and younger people look older all the time.
QUOTE(nerdycool @ Jul 19 2008, 01:41 AM)
If we're going to have actual stars filling all the roles, here's who I'd pick (and for me, they actually have to be able to sing reasonably well)
Elphaba - Anne Hathaway (Acting-wise, I see her playing an awesome Elphie. But singing she'd make a good Galinda, too)
Galinda - Kristen Bell
Fiyero - Jim Sturgess (some might be put off by his accent, but I love his voice!)
Nessa - Emmy Rossum
The Wizard - Peter Gallagher
Madame Morrible - Dame Judi Dench (okay... Morrible doesn't need to sing as well as the rest)
Boq - Zac Efron
Elphaba - Anne Hathaway (Acting-wise, I see her playing an awesome Elphie. But singing she'd make a good Galinda, too)
Galinda - Kristen Bell
Fiyero - Jim Sturgess (some might be put off by his accent, but I love his voice!)
Nessa - Emmy Rossum
The Wizard - Peter Gallagher
Madame Morrible - Dame Judi Dench (okay... Morrible doesn't need to sing as well as the rest)
Boq - Zac Efron
Kristen Bell as G(a)linda is a freaking stroke of genous! not only is she beautiful, and an extremely talented actress, but her musical performance was bloody brilliant in Reefer Madness!
I would love Kristen Bell as Glinda! Before it was announced that Erin would replace Megan in LA, I dreamt that it would be Kristen and that I'd meet her at stage-door. *sigh*
As for Anne Hathaway as Elphaba...? No thank you. I despise her. And she ruined one of my favorite novels and characters in Ella Enchanted. What a horrendible film!
As for Anne Hathaway as Elphaba...? No thank you. I despise her. And she ruined one of my favorite novels and characters in Ella Enchanted. What a horrendible film!
If Kristin Chenoweth wants to do it then maybe they can make Glinda Krisitn's age. Glinda can be an adult going back to college. Lots of adults go back to school today.
Except it would be just a bit weird for a 40-year-old to skip around singing to a woman half her age the importance of popularity.
QUOTE(.x.-6-ElPhIe-9-.x. @ Aug 14 2008, 02:54 AM)
Except it would be just a bit weird for a 40-year-old to skip around singing to a woman half her age the importance of popularity.
Yes, that's true.
QUOTE(.x.-6-ElPhIe-9-.x. @ Aug 14 2008, 01:54 AM)
Except it would be just a bit weird for a 40-year-old to skip around singing to a woman half her age the importance of popularity.
That had me laughing so hard...!
... It would also make Glinda seem like a bit of a pedophile.
^lmao yup! And i LOVE your banner! Teal/Eden love!
40 Year Old Glinda and 17 year old Fiyero and Boq and Elphaba:
Glinda: BIQ! DO YOU REALISE WHO THAT IS?!
Boq: Wooooah, woah, ok I don't know you that way. Hands off, you smell like the dead. And lady, do you have sclerosis(sp?)? It's BOOOOQ! Geez you're old!
Glinda: Were you looking for something, or....someone *toss toss*
Fiyero: Yeah, someone about 60 years younger, so no, not you Grandma.
Glinda: I'll help you be Popular!
Elphaba: Um, you mean like put on those huge white powdered wigs and wearing big dresses with bustles that make my ass look big and drinking tea and having books on my head and play with rocks and sticks and ? Yeah, you REEEEALLY don't have to do that. *runs away*
40 Year Old Glinda and 17 year old Fiyero and Boq and Elphaba:
Glinda: BIQ! DO YOU REALISE WHO THAT IS?!
Boq: Wooooah, woah, ok I don't know you that way. Hands off, you smell like the dead. And lady, do you have sclerosis(sp?)? It's BOOOOQ! Geez you're old!
Glinda: Were you looking for something, or....someone *toss toss*
Fiyero: Yeah, someone about 60 years younger, so no, not you Grandma.
Glinda: I'll help you be Popular!
Elphaba: Um, you mean like put on those huge white powdered wigs and wearing big dresses with bustles that make my ass look big and drinking tea and having books on my head and play with rocks and sticks and ? Yeah, you REEEEALLY don't have to do that. *runs away*
QUOTE(Wickedly*Defying*Gravity @ Aug 14 2008, 11:35 PM)
^lmao yup! And i LOVE your banner! Teal/Eden love!
Yep. My two favorites... it's a healthy obsession.
QUOTE(Wickedly*Defying*Gravity @ Aug 14 2008, 11:35 PM)
Glinda: I'll help you be Popular!
Elphaba: Um, you mean like put on those huge white powdered wigs and wearing big dresses with bustles that make my ass look big and drinking tea and having books on my head and play with rocks and sticks and ? Yeah, you REEEEALLY don't have to do that. *runs away*
Elphaba: Um, you mean like put on those huge white powdered wigs and wearing big dresses with bustles that make my ass look big and drinking tea and having books on my head and play with rocks and sticks and ? Yeah, you REEEEALLY don't have to do that. *runs away*
That one in particular had me laughing the most...
Galinda: And you may call me...
Elphaba: Madame Morrible?
Galinda: ...Galinda!
Elphaba: Hahaha... but no.
But an older Glinda could have a drinking problem... interesting plot twist, yes?
Fiyero: What's in the punch...?
Galinda: I dunno... but, GIMME!
Fiyero: Whoa, whoa! Take it easy on the sauce, Galinda!
HUGE BUMP!!!
This interview is over a year old but I thought some people might be interested.
I hadn't really thought about a tv movie based on the book. I think ABC would do a nice job if they ever did the adaptation. They could probably do all three books and get huge ratings.
This interview is over a year old but I thought some people might be interested.
QUOTE
EM: Can the play hold up without a scapegoating figurehead in the White House?
GM: Maybe there will be a drying up of interest, maybe part of the nourishment was that in some ways it’s a finger in the eye of a callous and unthinking administration, time will tell wont it?
EM: Obviously you wrote Wicked long before the “smoking gun as mushroom cloud” speech, before the conflation of Hussein and Bin Laden and all the rest. But do you think the echoes to the current politics helped get the play produced?
GM: 9-11 stoked up a certain kind of patriotism that promote a blindness and muteness among citizens and the more that I saw what was happening -- that we would be living under a spell for 7 years -- the less I believed that Wicked could ever get funded and ever get backers, it seemed so antithetical to what I was observing in the country.
At the stage reading, I was afraid that Wicked would require a suspension of belief in hierarchy in a time when people were clinging to the ropes of the White House ship and believing everything that was said even if it looked patently stupid.
EM: But apparently, shiny happy new President or no, there are plans to make this “finger in the eye” play into Wicked the movie (of the musical of the book about the movie and the book.)
GM: Universal plans to film Wicked the Musical for a 2014 release, but the timing is very much in the air. I also sold the rights to ABC TV to make a non-musical television version that will not be based on Winnie Holtzman’s script.
EM: Even without the political elements, Wicked is a great story about the friendship between two girls.
GM: There's no arguing that that is a very appealing aspect of the play and a good argument why people want to see it again and again. And it’s not just about young women learning to the depths of their affection for one another, its also about women -- or any disenfranchised citizen—learning their relationship in a system of power. So should the interests in the political aspects of the play dry up, there are other things in the play that continue to make it pertinent.
GM: Maybe there will be a drying up of interest, maybe part of the nourishment was that in some ways it’s a finger in the eye of a callous and unthinking administration, time will tell wont it?
EM: Obviously you wrote Wicked long before the “smoking gun as mushroom cloud” speech, before the conflation of Hussein and Bin Laden and all the rest. But do you think the echoes to the current politics helped get the play produced?
GM: 9-11 stoked up a certain kind of patriotism that promote a blindness and muteness among citizens and the more that I saw what was happening -- that we would be living under a spell for 7 years -- the less I believed that Wicked could ever get funded and ever get backers, it seemed so antithetical to what I was observing in the country.
At the stage reading, I was afraid that Wicked would require a suspension of belief in hierarchy in a time when people were clinging to the ropes of the White House ship and believing everything that was said even if it looked patently stupid.
EM: But apparently, shiny happy new President or no, there are plans to make this “finger in the eye” play into Wicked the movie (of the musical of the book about the movie and the book.)
GM: Universal plans to film Wicked the Musical for a 2014 release, but the timing is very much in the air. I also sold the rights to ABC TV to make a non-musical television version that will not be based on Winnie Holtzman’s script.
EM: Even without the political elements, Wicked is a great story about the friendship between two girls.
GM: There's no arguing that that is a very appealing aspect of the play and a good argument why people want to see it again and again. And it’s not just about young women learning to the depths of their affection for one another, its also about women -- or any disenfranchised citizen—learning their relationship in a system of power. So should the interests in the political aspects of the play dry up, there are other things in the play that continue to make it pertinent.
I hadn't really thought about a tv movie based on the book. I think ABC would do a nice job if they ever did the adaptation. They could probably do all three books and get huge ratings.
Read about this a couple of days ago. If they base it solely on the books, it should be good
MAJOR BUMP, but director Brett Ratner says that making this film would be his dream project.
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/arc..._dream_project/
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/arc..._dream_project/
I'm really having conflicts with myself on how I'd like to see the movie made. Completely animated (cgi) or live action and cgi combo. I think both would be awesome. I'm just...Idk, I'm more worried about who they'd cast. Phantom's movie casting is so controversial to this day. I liked it but others didn't. With every other recent movie musical made by Universal casting famous movie names, do you think wicked will be the same?
I don't really think they cast any famous names for Phantom. Patrick Wilson had done Broadway and the HBO movie based on a play called "Angels in America", but Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum were pretty much unknown. Gerard didn't become really famous until 300, which was two years after Phantom. Emmy had done one big movie, Mystic River, but she wasn't in it that much, and she did The Day After Tomorrow, but that movie wasn't well received.
Personally, I liked the Phantom cast. Gerard's voice wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either, and his acting made up for it. He was so passionate. It was the first time I ever wanted to hug the Phantom because I felt so sorry for him.
Personally, I liked the Phantom cast. Gerard's voice wasn't great, but it wasn't terrible either, and his acting made up for it. He was so passionate. It was the first time I ever wanted to hug the Phantom because I felt so sorry for him.
^ I definitely agree with Phantom, i think Emmy and, Gerard gave a new youthful life to the story. But besides Phantom, Mama Mia and Hairspray was purely famous name casting. I actually liked it, and I wouldn't mind some big names for certain characters. I honestly won't care who they pick as long as they fit the roles and are very talented, and not just names.
Personally, I'd like to see young people who have never done the show before. It would be totally new to everyone.
Heck, it might help if they haven't even seen the show. One reason why the director of Phantom liked Emmy Rossum was because she had never even seen the show, so she had no idea how one should play Christine. It was totally her own interpretation.
Heck, it might help if they haven't even seen the show. One reason why the director of Phantom liked Emmy Rossum was because she had never even seen the show, so she had no idea how one should play Christine. It was totally her own interpretation.
A movie is in development according to Broadway World and Variety:
http://broadwayworld.com/article/2012-Pois...sicals-20120105
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118047896?refCatId=13
http://broadwayworld.com/article/2012-Pois...sicals-20120105
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118047896?refCatId=13
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