“Depraved: For Good” does 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 whole saga of this movie’s launch schedule, let me refresh your reminiscence. After years of improvement 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 finest buddy and eventual Good Witch, Glinda.
“Depraved: Half One” was a field workplace smash and scored nice opinions 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 entire title within the movie). (It gained two “below-the-line” Academy Awards in March 2025 for its costume design and manufacturing design, each of which had 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? Individuals 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) most likely have already got some concept about the place “For Good” goes. Now, due to the trailer, all types of “Depraved” followers will be capable of 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 finest 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.” Meaning 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, nevertheless, 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’ll be able to glean as a lot from the trailer, which finds Elphaba having totally embraced her Depraved Witch of the West moniker and performing 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 must make due with watching “Say Nothing” and pretending the Worth sisters are Elphaba and Glinda.
As for who’s enjoying 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 meanwhile. By no means concern, although, all shall be revealed when Elphaba, Glinda, and the gang return to the massive display on November 21, 2025.
