The teaser opens with a magic class: Elphaba (along with her inexperienced pores and skin intact) is training sorcery whereas Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh) is attempting to assist her. The movie’s setting is a mixture of sensible and digital, with tunnels resembling Bag Finish from “The Lord of the Rings.” Websites within the movie vary from castles to woods to the Emerald Metropolis itself.
Amongst different eye-catchers are Flying Monkeys, the Wizard of Oz himself (Jeff Goldblum), and behind-the-scenes footage of actors flying round on broomsticks. The setting additionally contains 9 million tulips, which the manufacturing really planted as a substitute of making with CGI. “‘Depraved’ is about change,” stated Chu the behind-the-scenes segments, “and it is necessary for issues to get higher.”
It would not be a musical trailer with out some music, although. Glinda tells Elphaba she’s stunning and declares, “I’ve determined to make you my new venture.” That is the opening of “Well-liked,” the second most, effectively, well-liked music on the “Depraved” soundtrack. The primary is “Defying Gravity,” and the footage gives a style of Erivo and Grande singing and “crushing” that one too.
Pearson described this glimpse of “Depraved” as “enormous” and “so epic.” The eagerness that the solid and crew have for this venture is clear even simply from a secondhand recounting of the footage.
“Depraved: Half One” releases on November 7, 2024.