“Depraved: For Good” would not hit theaters till November 2025, however the first trailer is lastly right here.
In case you are one way or the other behind on the complete saga of this movie’s launch schedule, let me refresh your reminiscence. After years of growth and makes an attempt to make it a actuality, the primary a part of the large “Depraved” film, primarily based on Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holtzman’s blockbuster Broadway musical of the identical title, got here out in November 2024. Helmed by Jon M. Chu (“Loopy Wealthy Asians,” “Within the Heights”), the preliminary a part of the origin story of the Depraved Witch of the West stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp, the younger, verdantly-hued witch who will get blamed for all of Ozs societal ills, alongside Ariana Grande-Butera as her greatest buddy and eventual Good Witch, Glinda.
“Depraved: Half One” was a field workplace smash and scored nice critiques with critics, and it even earned a handful of Oscar nods, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Actress (for Erivo), and Greatest Supporting Actress (for pop star Grande-Butera, who’s credited by her complete title within the movie). (It received two “below-the-line” Academy Awards in March 2025 for its costume design and manufacturing design, each of which have been wholly deserved.) So, how will the story proceed within the sequel, which adopted the subtitle “For Good” in honor of one of many musical’s most emotional duets? Folks accustomed to both the musical or Gregory Maguire’s a lot darker e book “Depraved: The Life and Occasions of the Depraved Witch of the West” (which served because the supply materials for the musical) in all probability have already got some concept about the place “For Good” goes. Now, because of the trailer, all types of “Depraved” followers will have the ability to see what’s coming this fall.
Elphaba and Glinda’s story involves an epic conclusion in Depraved: For Good
The place the advertising for “Depraved: Half One” did its greatest to cover the very fact the film is a musical (one which’s, once more, primarily based on a blockbuster Broadway sensation, as foolish as that was), the cat is mercifully out of the bag for “Depraved: For Good.” Which means we’re handled to snippets of arguably the 2 most well-known and celebrated songs from the unique stage present’s second half right here within the types of “No Good Deed” and the titular “For Good.” They’re each extraordinarily emotional and sweeping tunes at that, although to say extra could be to spoil the shock for all you novices on the market who’ve but to expertise this “Wizard of Oz” prequel/re-imagining in its entirety.
What we are able to say, nonetheless, is that “Depraved: For Good” is nearer to a political thriller set within the whimsical “Depraved” universe than the coming-of-young-adult-age saga that was “Half One.” You possibly can glean as a lot from the trailer, which finds Elphaba having totally embraced her Depraved Witch of the West moniker and appearing as a freedom fighter intent on exposing the Wizard’s (Jeff Goldblum) lies and delivering justice to the wrongly persecuted Animals of Oz. Thoughts you, issues will not be getting fairly as bleak and grim as they do in Maguire’s unique “Depraved” novel, the place Elphaba turns into, roughly, an Irish Republican Military (IRA)-styled terrorist/insurgent. For that, you will need to make due with watching “Say Nothing” and pretending the Value sisters are Elphaba and Glinda.
As for who’s taking part in Dorothy Gale (who, as we see within the trailer, correctly enters the image at this level within the narrative, together with another acquainted Ozians) in “Depraved: For Good” and what we are able to anticipate when it comes to the brand new songs created particularly for this film, that must stay a thriller in the interim. By no means concern, although, all shall be revealed when Elphaba, Glinda, and the gang return to the massive display screen on November 21, 2025.
