Everything We Know About ‘Wicked: For Good’ (So Far)

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From the merchandise day to caller music, here's what you tin expect from the upcoming sequel.

10/20/2025

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo successful "Wicked"

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo successful "Wicked" Giles Keyte/Universal Pictures

After much than 2 decades arsenic 1 of Broadway fans’ astir beloved musicals, Wicked finally got the live-action movie attraction past twelvemonth — but the travel down the Yellow Brick Road is lone halfway complete.

Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande arsenic the project’s iconic starring ladies — Elphaba and Glinda, respectfully — Jon M. Chu’s Wicked Part 1 yet deed theaters aft astir 3 years of accumulation and promotional buildup connected Nov. 22, 2024, bringing successful historical box-office numbers and becoming the top-grossing movie based connected a Broadway philharmonic connected record. Its soundtrack of caller takes connected Stephen Schwartz’s archetypal 2003 signifier people debuted astatine No. 2 connected the Billboard 200, the highest-ever opening for a stage-to-screen adaptation.

After seeing the archetypal installment, however, fans were instantly impatient for more. Still fractional of the Ozian communicative — inspired by Gregory Maguire’s Wicked novel astir the root stories of the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good — remained to beryllium told successful Part 2, which Universal Pictures announced successful December 2024 would officially beryllium titled Wicked: For Good. Luckily, the sequel is poised to beryllium good worthy the wait; erstwhile Chu first announced that the adaptation would beryllium divided into 2 parts successful April 2022, the manager wrote connected X, “With much space, we tin archer the communicative of Wicked arsenic it was meant to beryllium told portion bringing adjacent much extent and astonishment to the journeys of these beloved characters.”

Though overmuch of Part 2 has been kept nether wraps, Universal Pictures and Chu — arsenic good arsenic Grande, Erivo and Schwartz — person divulged a fistful of precious details astir the finale for fans to pore implicit arsenic they hold for premiere day. From its merchandise day to additions to the soundtrack, support speechmaking to spot everything Billboard knows astir Wicked: For Good.