Happy New Year! Here’s Three Hours of Wicked Bonus Content
Nowhere is safe from the phenomenon known as Wizomania — not even your home. On December 31, Wicked will be released into the cloud like so many flying monkeys, becoming available to rent or buy on whatever digital platforms you do your renting and buying on. This home release follows a record-setting box-office run for the Broadway musical adaptation, and it will feature three additional hours of bonus material for fans who think the film, which is only “Part One” of a two-movie experience, could have been much longer. These bonus features serve a dual-purpose, as they also allow for stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande to take a brief reprieve from producing bonus content of their own via grueling, surrealist press tour. These extras include:
This home-streaming release is also loaded with deleted and extended scenes, which Universal has already titled and described in full:
Of course, Ariana Grande and Bowen Yang “performing a twirling routine” is by far the most interesting-sounding of these deleted moments, although an extended version of Elphaba and Fiyero’s little forest moment is promising, because maybe they kiss? Egregiously absent from this list is the teased deleted montage in which Jonathan Bailey and Ethan Slater take their shirts off. Maybe that’ll be an exclusive for the physical-media heads, when Wicked is released on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on February 4, 2025.
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