This text incorporates spoilers for Depraved: For Good.
Depraved: For Good is already shaping as much as be one of many first field workplace hits of the 2025 vacation season. Concluding the story of 2024’s Depraved, the movie stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Marissa Bode, Ethan Slater, Bronwyn James, and Bowen Yang.
It follows Elphaba (Erivo) after she found the Wizard of Oz (Goldblum) was a fraud and defied him within the first movie, in addition to her former pal Glinda (Grande) who has turn out to be a part of the Wizard’s regime. Apparently, the movie introduced again Pfannee (Yang) and ShenShen (James), who’re sycophantic buddies of Glinda from their faculty days, despite the fact that they’re absent from the second act of the musical on which each films are primarily based.
Per director Jon M. Chu, the choice to incorporate them was meant to replicate the general public of Oz, even so, he did finally reduce Yang and James from an early model of Glinda’s redemption arc (by way of Leisure Weekly). Through the scene by which Glinda decides to warn Elphaba of a mob coming to kill her, Pfannee and ShenShen nearly performed a job in serving to her. He defined: “There was a second the place I used to be like, ‘Oh, I would like them to assist her out—to get the horse or open the door or distract the troopers so she will get out.“
“However then that took away from Glinda’s journey, so I knew that it needed to be simply Glinda,” Chu added. This second, Glinda selecting to warn Elphaba, is pivotal to her arc, and it additionally includes a new music, “The Lady within the Bubble.” As such, Chu wished that scene to be Glinda-focused.
Even so, For Good does present a flicker of humanity in Pfannee and ShenShen when they’re visibly uncomfortable with the mob heading to kill Elphaba. “We added that for them as a result of I used to be like, ‘Are they in on this or not? I actually don’t need them to be in on this,'” Chu acknowledged. “That is the brand new technology; I wished that group of scholars, irrespective of how good or unhealthy they had been within the final film, to have the conscience right here.“
Beforehand, Chu famous that “every character has to ask a query about actuality in some unspecified time in the future and make a selection of which actuality they are going to decide on.” Glinda accepts that she has to assist Elphaba, whereas Boq (Slater), has chosen “a actuality of hate as a neighborhood.”
“I believe it is this concept that we’re each good and depraved,” Chu added. “We’re all of these items, and every single day we make a selection about which one we will be.” To that time, Pfannee and ShenShen “even simply searching and watching the witch hunters and being a little bit bit appalled by that gave us simply the little breadcrumb to say, ‘Okay, they will come by means of on the finish.’ it allowed us to know, ‘All proper, there is a conscience.’“
Depraved: For Good is now taking part in in theaters.
Depraved: For Good
8/10
- Launch Date
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November 21, 2025
- Runtime
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137 Minutes
- Director
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Jon M. Chu
- Writers
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Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox, Gregory Maguire