Harmony Jones
The film version of Broadway smash “Wicked” is a long ways off, according to the movie’s producer Marc Platt.
Platt, speaking with Coming Soon about “Into the Woods”, says the Wizard of Oz-spin-off isn’t a high priority for him at the moment.
“The movie of Wicked is still a number of years down the line,” he told the site. “We’ve just started its development, because the show’s still so strong with eight or nine companies around the world. That’s coming in the future. That’s why I haven’t been in a hurry, because it works so well on stage and audiences are enjoying it. It’s not a timely story, it’s a timeless sorry, so I’ve been very sanguine to let folks explore it theatrically and when we’re ready we’ll make a movie.”
Platt says he’s currently developing a sequel to 2008’s “Wanted”.
“We have a script that’s getting pretty good,” Platt explained. “To do a sequel when it wasn’t really set up for a sequel–one of our main characters dies in it. You don’t want to just retread a similar story, but when we get the script to a certain bar, there will be a sequel. It’s taken a while because it’s challenging, as I said, because we lost a main, main character, so where that James McAvoy character goes now… we have good ideas though. It’s coming along.”
