The film adaptation was titled Wicked, with Ariana Grande starring as Glinda.
The 2024 film is a big-screen adaptation of the first act of the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked. Jon M. Chu directed the movie, while Cynthia Erivo plays Elphaba Thropp and Grande plays Glinda Upland, the character who later becomes Glinda the Good Witch.
Wicked draws on Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which reimagines the world created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The musical’s story takes place before Dorothy arrives in Oz and focuses on the complicated friendship between Elphaba and Galinda.
A frequent source of confusion is the film’s two-part structure. The first movie is commonly called Wicked and is titled on-screen Wicked: Part I; its follow-up is Wicked: For Good. “The Wizard of Oz” is the earlier story being reinterpreted, not the name of this Ariana Grande film.