Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Nicole Kidman, and other actresses considered for Wicked movie
Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicole Kidman were just a few of the stars considered to star in a film version of Wicked in the mid-1990s. Find out who else was circling the movie.
Let’s take the yellow brick road to the Wicked movie that might have been. While the movie musical starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jonathan Bailey based on the 2003 Broadway hit is currently captivating movie audiences,
there was almost a very different version made in the mid-1990s, which more closely followed the original source material, Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.
According to Wicked film and Broadway producer Marc Platt, a movie adaptation was already floating around Universal Pictures when he joined the company in 1996.
«I am going to try and get the timeline right if I can remember, but I believe when I became the president of production at Universal, the project was already here,» he told Vanity Fair in an interview published Dec. 19.
«It had been published Dec. 19. «It had been optioned initially by Demi Moore’s company.»
However, according to author Maguire, the book had been the focus of a bidding war among several actors who were interested in producing a film version, telling that outlet that Whoopi Goldberg «had expressed an interest in the first six months.»
