Bridgerton star lands key role in Wicked movie adaptation
Director Jon M Chu confirmed the news on Twitter, writing:"He's perfect, they're perfect. They'd be perfect together. Born to be forever….. I am too excited to pretend this hasn't been happening. We have a Fiyero!!!! #JonathanBailey #Wicked".the decision to split the musical into two movies"We kept running into two problems," he explained.
"We found it very difficult to get past 'Defying Gravity' without a break," he said. That song is written specifically to bring a curtain down, and whatever scene followed it without a break just seemed hugely anti-climactic. "So, for these two reasons, plus the excitement of doing something that's never been done before with a musical, we have decided to do two movies."
Chu himself revealed: "As we prepared the production over the last year, it became increasingly clear that it would be impossible to wrestle the story ofwill hit theatres worldwide on December 25, 2024, and December 25, 2025.
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