The Author of ‘Depraved For Good’ Has the Good Hook for a Third Film

Making the stage present Depraved into two films was controversial enough. Now, as a result of the movie variations have been so wildly successful, everyone seems to be imagining what a possible third film can be like, and one particular person has a very good concept for it.

Chatting with Deadline, Dana Fox, who co-wrote the script to Wicked: For Good with the author of the unique present, Winnie Holzman, pointed to a particular line on the finish of the brand new movie that, she thinks, may very well be an ideal technique to proceed the story. If, after all, that even occurs. There are at the moment no plans, however when Depraved: For Good makes nearly $200 million this weekend, that might very nicely change.

The road is from the very finish of the film and may very well be thought-about a spoiler, so right here’s your warning.

In Depraved: For Good, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) fakes her loss of life by the hands of Dorothy (as seen in The Wizard of Oz) and heads to a mysterious place past Oz to stay together with her prince turned scarecrow, Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey). Glinda (Ariana Grande) isn’t made absolutely conscious of the plan, and there’s solely a touch that perhaps she thinks her pals are nonetheless alive. And so, within the movie, Elphaba delivers the road “I do know she will be able to by no means know that we’re alive.” It’s left at that because the couple walks into the sundown, however Fox thinks that’s the way in which into a 3rd film if it had been to happen.

“I’d be honored if anybody requested me to be part of Depraved 3,” Fox mentioned. “And I believe that they’re such beloved characters that seeing what they had been as much as, I imply, to me, the second when Elphaba says in voiceover, ‘I do know she will be able to by no means know that we’re alive.’ I used to be like, any person seems like they’re asking to search out out that they’re alive sooner or later. That feels actually like, ‘Hiya.’ That’s spicy to me. I really like the concept that we may meet up with them once more sometime.”

Which once more, isn’t at the moment scheduled to occur, however one by no means is aware of. That goes particularly if you happen to look again on the unique supply materials. Earlier than the flicks, most of us knew Depraved as this wildly profitable Broadway present. However the present was based mostly on a 1995 ebook by Gregory Maguire, which itself had a number of sequels. The musical already differed fairly considerably from Maguire’s books, however the supply materials does exist with loads of concepts of the place Elphaba and Glinda go subsequent.

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