Tyrion Lannister is heading to the Great World of Oz. Peter Dinklage has been solid within the upcoming Broadway musical adaptation “Depraved: Half One,” it was introduced Wednesday.
Jim Orr, Common Footage President of Home Theatrical Distribution, introduced the information on Wednesday, in the course of the firm’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. Dinklage will voice Dr. Dillamond, a goat professor at Shiz College and a mentor to the musical’s protagonist Elphaba (performed within the movie by Cynthia Erivo). William Youmans originated the half on Broadway in 2003.
Dinklage is greatest identified for his acclaimed efficiency as Tyrion in HBO drama “Sport of Thrones.” For his half because the scheming political manipulator, the actor received the Primetime Emmy Award for Oustanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Sequence a document 4 instances throughout the present’s eight seasons. Outdoors of “Sport of Thrones,” Dinklage broke by means of with the 2003 indie movie “The Station Agent,” and his different credit embrace “X-Males: Days of Future Previous,” “Loss of life at a Funeral,” “Three Billboards Outdoors Ebbing, Missouri,” “Avengers: Infinity Conflict,” “I Care A Lot,” “Cyrano,” “She Got here to Me,” and final yr’s “The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” He’ll subsequent seem in Netflix movie “Unfrosted: The Pop Tart Story,” and can star within the comedy “Brothers” reverse Josh Brolin and the Western “The Thicket” with Juliette Lewis.
The “Depraved” movie adaptation relies on the favored Broadway musical of the identical identify, which is itself based mostly on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, which in flip relies on the enduring 1900 L. Frank Baum novel “The Great Wizard of Oz.” Each the musical and the Maguire novel inform the story of the Depraved Witch of the West from the unique Baum guide, imagining her coming-of-age and friendship with Glinda the Good Witch. The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a guide by Winnie Holzman, was instantly profitable upon its 2003 Broadway premiere, and received three Tony Awards. It has run repeatedly on the Gershwin Theatre within the 20 years since, and is at the moment the fourth longest-running manufacturing on Broadway.
For the movie adaptation, “Depraved” might be divided into two components, with every movie protecting one act of the stage musical. John M. Chu directs each movies, which star Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, and Jonathan Bailey. Half One will launch on November 27, adopted by Half Two a yr afterward November 26, 2025.