During Sunday’s Super Bowl, the first teaser trailer for Wicked, which stars Ariana Grande as the good witch Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as the evil witch Elphaba, was released.
The two-part musical film Wicked, directed by Jon M. Chu, is a version of the Tony Award-winning 2003 Broadway production of the same name, starring Stephan Schwartz and Winnie Holzman. 
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire is the basis for the Broadway production as well as the upcoming film adaptation.
Ariana Grande on Wicked’s trailer
In the first trailer for the movie that screened at the Super Bowl on Sunday, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are shown as royalty in the magical land of Oz. Wicked, the film’s logline reads, is the origin story of a green-skinned woman who later becomes the “Wicked Witch of the West,” and it serves as a prequel to the events of Wizards of Oz.
“Don’t be afraid,” Grande’s Glinda tells Erivo’s Elphaba in the teaser trailer.“I’m not afraid. It’s the Wizard who should be afraid of me,” said Erivo’s Elphaba.
The footage not only introduces the star-studded Wicked ensemble to the audience, but it also features Defying Gravity, the show’s signature anthem, which induces goosebumps.
The cast of Wicked, which also stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, includes Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard of Oz, Michelle Yeoh as Madame Morrible, Ethan Slater as Boq, Bowen Yang as Pfannee, and Bridgerton star Jonathan Bailey as Fiyero Tigelaar.
On November 27 of this year, Wicked: Part One will open in theatres. Fans will have to wait until November 26, 2025, for the film’s second instalment.
Jon M. Chu, explains why Wicked was made in two parts
Chu said back in 2022 that “As we prepared the production over the last year, it became impossible to wrestle the story of Wicked into a single film without doing some real damage to it.”
“As we tried to cut songs or trim characters, those decisions began to feel like fatal compromises to the source material that has entertained us all for so many years,” he added. “We decided to give ourselves a bigger canvas and make not just one Wicked movie but two!”
Chu remarked, “This movie has everything: giant musical numbers, big action pieces, and using a classic story you all know, The Wizard of Oz,” while revealing the first look of the film to a small audience at CinemaCon 2023.
Erivo stated to Entertainment Tonight in 2022, during the filming of Wicked, that the movie adaptation would be “unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.”
