London flew to Oz on Monday night for the European premiere of Jon M. Chu’s highly anticipated film evil (Part 1).
The director gave his first press tour for the film at the city’s Royal Festival Hall (he missed the Los Angeles premiere due to a new baby), flanked by his Glinda and Elphaba, who Braving the British downpour.
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, the umbrella duo, wore chiffon yellow dresses and waist-wrapped black dresses respectively, following Jonathan Bailey, Bowie Bowen Yang, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh, Marissa Bode, Bronwyn James and Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblum ), on the fans – flanked by green carpet.
“It’s been a long journey to get here,” said producer Marc Platt, who oversees the historic Broadway musical. “evil It started over 20 years ago. I first planned to make it into a movie. But then one of my favorite composers, who inspired me as a kid and inspired generations of people, called me and said, “This should be a musical first.” That guy was Mr. Stephen Schwartz.
As Platt continued speaking, Oscar-winning composer Schwartz took the stage. “Then we started the journey. We made the stage musical. I want to thank my colleagues and friends at Universal for supporting this show and this movie over the years. It turns out this movie took so long,” he said. , because he was waiting for the perfect director. “I was waiting for someone with such imagination, such talent, and such humanity to raise their hand and say, ‘I want to direct this movie,'” Pratt said. “
Chu happily accepted the ovation from the 2,400-seat theater and said it felt good to be back in London (the film was produced at a British studio).
“It makes sense because that’s where we built this thing,” he said before introducing the actors who took the stage with him. “It’s all the hands, all the brains, all the creativity, all the crazy dreamers that came together here to build the Emerald City and the Munchkin Land. So it feels good to be back on our home turf.
evil The show will be the first of two film adaptations of the hit musical by Zhu Zhu, with the second part set to be released on Thanksgiving 2025. The untold story of the Witch of Oz.
The play premiered on Broadway in 2003, starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth.
