Depraved followers gained’t have to attend fairly so long as anticipated to observe Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo within the movie adaptation of the favored Broadway musical.
Common Photos introduced Monday that director Jon M. Chu‘s musical function will hit theaters Nov. 22. The movie has moved up from its beforehand scheduled launch on Nov. 27, the day earlier than Thanksgiving, with the brand new date giving the film extra time to construct phrase of mouth heading into the vacation hall. The brand new date additionally permits it to keep away from Disney’s Moana 2.
It is going to now compete in opposition to Paramount’s Gladiator II, which additionally hits theaters Nov. 22 and stars Paul Mescal in Ridley Scott’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2000 historic epic.
Depraved adapts the Tony-winning Broadway musical of the identical identify, which is itself primarily based on creator Gregory Maguire’s 1995 e-book, Depraved: The Life and Instances of the Depraved Witch of the West. The venture adapts characters that originated in L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel The Great Wizard of Oz and have been dropped at life within the Oscar-winning 1939 movie musical The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland as Dorothy.
The movie stars Grande as Glinda and Erivo as Elphaba, with Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Jeff Goldblum and Bowen Yang rounding out the forged. Marc Platt and David Stone function producers.
“We dreamed very, very, very massive for Depraved,” Chu informed the CinemaCon crowd when debuting footage on the Las Vegas occasion in April. “A magical land of sights and sounds that can astonish, and performances that can elevate your spirits and infrequently break your coronary heart.”
The movie is the primary title in a two-part launch, with Depraved: Half Two nonetheless scheduled to hit theaters Nov. 26, 2025, the day earlier than Thanksgiving of that 12 months.