“Depraved: For Good” does not hit theaters till November 2025, however the first trailer is lastly right here.
In case you are one way or the other behind on all the saga of this movie’s launch schedule, let me refresh your reminiscence. After years of improvement and makes an attempt to make it a actuality, the primary a part of the huge “Depraved” film, based mostly on Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holtzman’s blockbuster Broadway musical of the identical identify, got here out in November 2024. Helmed by Jon M. Chu (“Loopy Wealthy Asians,” “Within the Heights”), the preliminary a part of the origin story of the Depraved Witch of the West stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp, the younger, verdantly-hued witch who will get blamed for all of Ozs societal ills, alongside Ariana Grande-Butera as her greatest good friend and eventual Good Witch, Glinda.
“Depraved: Half One” was a field workplace smash and scored nice evaluations with critics, and it even earned a handful of Oscar nods, together with Greatest Image, Greatest Actress (for Erivo), and Greatest Supporting Actress (for pop star Grande-Butera, who’s credited by her complete identify within the movie). (It gained two “below-the-line” Academy Awards in March 2025 for its costume design and manufacturing design, each of which have been wholly deserved.) So, how will the story proceed within the sequel, which adopted the subtitle “For Good” in honor of one of many musical’s most emotional duets? Folks acquainted with both the musical or Gregory Maguire’s a lot darker e-book “Depraved: The Life and Instances of the Depraved Witch of the West” (which served because the supply materials for the musical) in all probability have already got some concept about the place “For Good” goes. Now, because of the trailer, all types of “Depraved” followers will have the ability to see what’s coming this fall.
Elphaba and Glinda’s story involves an epic conclusion in Depraved: For Good
The place the advertising for “Depraved: Half One” did its greatest to cover the actual fact the film is a musical (one which’s, once more, based mostly on a blockbuster Broadway sensation, as foolish as that was), the cat is mercifully out of the bag for “Depraved: For Good.” Meaning we’re handled to snippets of arguably the 2 most well-known and celebrated songs from the unique stage present’s second half right here within the types of “No Good Deed” and the titular “For Good.” They’re each extraordinarily emotional and sweeping tunes at that, although to say extra could be to damage the shock for all you novices on the market who’ve but to expertise this “Wizard of Oz” prequel/re-imagining in its entirety.
What we will say, nevertheless, is that “Depraved: For Good” is nearer to a political thriller set within the whimsical “Depraved” universe than the coming-of-young-adult-age saga that was “Half One.” You may glean as a lot from the trailer, which finds Elphaba having totally embraced her Depraved Witch of the West moniker and appearing as a freedom fighter intent on exposing the Wizard’s (Jeff Goldblum) lies and delivering justice to the wrongly persecuted Animals of Oz. Thoughts you, issues will not be getting fairly as bleak and grim as they do in Maguire’s authentic “Depraved” novel, the place Elphaba turns into, roughly, an Irish Republican Military (IRA)-styled terrorist/insurgent. For that, you may need to make due with watching “Say Nothing” and pretending the Worth sisters are Elphaba and Glinda.
As for who’s enjoying Dorothy Gale (who, as we see within the trailer, correctly enters the image at this level within the narrative, together with another acquainted Ozians) in “Depraved: For Good” and what we will anticipate when it comes to the brand new songs created particularly for this film, that should stay a thriller in the intervening time. By no means concern, although, all shall be revealed when Elphaba, Glinda, and the gang return to the massive display screen on November 21, 2025.
