WickedThe first full-length
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Let us be glad, let us be grateful… because the first full-length trailer for Wicked is finally here.

The sneak peek dropped on Wednesday morning to high anticipation after director Jon M. Chu teased the release on social media, also sharing a new featurette that gives fans a look behind the scenes — including at Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande's auditions.

The trailer shows young outcast Elphaba (Erivo) and the ever-popular Glinda (Grande) arriving at Shiz University, where they immediately clash. But their rivalry cannot keep them apart because Headmistress Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) wastes no time in assigning them as roommates.

Despite Glinda's efforts to humiliate her strange new nemesis, the two eventually forge an unlikely friendship that changes them — and all of Oz — forever.

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Based on the 2003 Broadway musical (itself inspired by Gregory Maguire’s novel of the same name), Wicked tells the backstory of the witches of Oz, celebrating how the power of magic and friendship can transform our lives.

The film follows green-skinned Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda, the future Good Witch of the North, from their earlier years as enemies-turned-chums through their complicated adulthood as they contend with political strife and a love triangle with school hunk Fiyero, played by Bridgerton and Fellow Travelers star Jonathan Bailey.

This trailer expands significantly on the first teaser, which was released during the Super Bowl back in February. That footage included a goosebump-inducing first listen at Erivo performing the show-stopping number "Defying Gravity." Now we get to hear a few notes of Grande singing the bubbly "Popular" and the ominous overture "No One Mourns the Wicked."

The footage also offers a glimpse of Peter Dinklage as Dr. Dillamond, a goat professor who warns Elphaba of the rising dark forces in Oz, and Jeff Goldblum as the Wizard, who, as Oz fans know, is not quite what he seems.

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Now in its 20th year on Broadway, Wicked has delighted generations of audiences. Chu, himself a fan, hopes to please longtime lovers of the stage musical while also building on its core story over the course of his movie's two parts.

"What's wonderful about the show is that you get an insight into why this woman becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, but you have only three hours to do it in," Erivo previously told Entertainment Weekly. "With us, you have two movies. In this first movie, you really get to know [Elphaba] as a young lady and what pushes her to the thing that we get to know. The story gets to be opened. You really get to experience magic."

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She added, "We've expanded on their relationship as friends. That's a really important, special thing that you have in the show, but here you really get to go with them in that. We've got something really special."

The first part of Wicked hits theaters Nov. 27, with the second part slated for release in November 2025.  Watch the full-length trailer above.

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