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ELI5: How can the Wicked movie adaptation (part 1!) have a running time of 2:40 when the musical is 2:45 with a 15 min intermission -- nm

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Nov 12 '24, 08:26

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FWIW, I hear the pacing is good and for being a "Part 1", it's surprisingly satisfying. -- nm - Mop🧹 Nov 12, 08:41 1
- There's very few things that I can think of being satisfying at 2 hours and 40 minutes - JD Nov 12, 08:45
How can the Hobbit, which is a 256 page book, be turned into 3 movies with a 474 total minutes run time? -- nm - Trending Nov 12, 08:40 1
- That's an interesting pitch, and we'd like to hear more about this proposal. -- nm - All the Hollywood Guilds Nov 12, 08:43
In all seriousness - I've seen Wicked a few times and never have I thought - this show really needs 3 hours more content. nm - Turd Ferguson Nov 12, 08:39 3
- the boring answer is Universal has been trying to develop it for almost 20 years and has to recoup a lot of overhead from the process -- nm - mr mooch Nov 12, 08:40 2
  - Wait. That's actually a thing? In a business of turn arounds and cutting losses and letting projects go - JD Nov 12, 08:43 1
    - Lord of the Rings changed the perspective. New Line got three billion dollar movies for basically what they were going to have to pay for one long ass -- (edited) - mr mooch Nov 12, 08:50
i assume they added a new song or two that weren't in the stage version -- nm - mr mooch Nov 12, 08:34 1
- Ahhhhhh...Like Olivia Newton-John's contract to be in Grease -- nm - JD Nov 12, 08:36
because the screenwriter wanted to date arianna and added more scenes? -- nm - tRuMaN Nov 12, 08:33 1
- Oooooo. Like in Bowfinger -- nm - JD Nov 12, 08:35
Over an hour of bullshit that isn't part of the stage show. -- nm - Turd Ferguson Nov 12, 08:31 1
- Not exactly five year old friendly language but I'll accept it 8-) -- nm - JD Nov 12, 08:32

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