Appears like it is gonna come out in 2019. And it's gonna suck, real bad, like worse-than-that-stupid-Oz-movie-you-mentioned bad. No news about the cast so far, which probably means no Idina Menzel and no Kristin Chenoweth, which means it's gonna suck even harder.

Yes

Appears like it is gonna come out in 2019. And it's gonna suck, real bad, like worse-than-that-stupid-Oz-movie-you-mentioned bad. No news about the cast so far, which probably means no Idina Menzel and no Kristin Chenoweth, which means it's gonna suck even harder.

May be you are right. No sequel or spin off could match the greatness of the original.

It's going to go straight to streaming if this corona gets any worse.

Defying Gravity will be done with wires like Peter Pan or Jackie Chan style with sheer awesomeness. Or a Robert Downey Iron Man Jetpack.

Matt Damon is wicked smart

Haha posted this 3 years ago so I guess not!

Or can they just release an anniversary special of stage musical like Phantom of the Opera's 25th with Ramin & Sierra.

Now it's release date is 2024 with a sequel planed in 2025.

LOL

The trailer just dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COmYeLsz4c

The day you have been waiting for @lmao7 !

Shiz University? Shiz? Also, is that Grande's normal voice?

The university is called Shiz in the musical (and probably in the source material).

@ana catarina fontes said:

Appears like it is gonna come out in 2019. And it's gonna suck, real bad, like worse-than-that-stupid-Oz-movie-you-mentioned bad. No news about the cast so far, which probably means no Idina Menzel and no Kristin Chenoweth, which means it's gonna suck even harder.

Were you talking critically or financially?

Critically, it landed an A on Cinemascore, and is currently maintaining a 69% TMDb rating. Those two numbers suggest it did not suck in terms of entertainment value as far as its core audience is concerned.

Financially, it paid $4.85 in an industry that requires $2 for break-even and has averaged $3.03 across the over 5,700 titles from 1915 to 2024 that I have in my movie ROI database. So, financially, it's done pretty good, as well.

Having ticked these four measurables boxes (Cinemascore, TMDb rating, revenue and ROI), we should be able to agree that, objectively, it did not suck.

What I'm curious to know are:

A) what made you think it would suck; and

B) what happened differently out there in the real world that you apparently did not expect?

@DRDMovieMusings said:

Having ticked these four measurables boxes (Cinemascore, TMDb rating, revenue and ROI), we should be able to agree that, objectively, it did not suck.

5th metric: RottenTomatoes (top critics) - a high flying 88% based on 384 reviews

RT's "popcornmeter" (audience) is an even higher 95% based on 25k ratings

Seems like a resounding show of non-suckage on all counts!

@rooprect said:

@DRDMovieMusings said:

Having ticked these four measurables boxes (Cinemascore, TMDb rating, revenue and ROI), we should be able to agree that, objectively, it did not suck.

5th metric: RottenTomatoes (top critics) - a high flying 88% based on 384 reviews

RT's "popcornmeter" (audience) is an even higher 95% based on 25k ratings

Wow! Okay, I stand corrected, fi...no, wait...SIX objective measurables.

Seems like a resounding show of non-suckage on all counts!

Yep!