Warning: The next comprises spoilers for Depraved: For Good
Jon M. Chu lastly explains one of the crucial haunting scenes of Depraved: For Good. Simply launched this weekend, the sequel follows the occasions of the Broadway musical. Ariana Grande-Butera and Cynthia Erivo reprise their roles as Glinda and Elphaba. The solid additionally options Michelle Yeoh, Ethan Slater, Jeff Goldblum, and Jonathan Bailey.
Although the film has simply been launched, it’s already making waves on the field workplace. Throughout its Thursday previews, the movie made $30.8 million on the home field workplace. In a reasonably gradual fall, this isn’t solely the perfect preview gross of the season, however the highest of 2025 so far.
Following the discharge of the movie, Chu explains one key ingredient of Depraved: For Good‘s ending moments to Leisure Weekly. Particularly, the director spoke concerning the which means behind the desert that Elphaba and Fiyero stroll into through the last moments. In response to Chu, the crew thought-about “variations of that desert that have been quite a bit darker and scarier.”
Nevertheless, the model they selected represented one thing much more hopeful. Within the last model, this represented “risk.”
“[There were] variations of that desert that have been quite a bit darker and scarier — like strolling into your fears. [But ultimately, the desert] is just not lifeless area, it is risk. Nobody has explored that horizon as a result of everybody’s too scared. Let’s put sparkles in that sand!”
Chu’s inclusion of the desert finds its origins in L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. The writer described this desolate surroundings past Ouncesbecause the Lethal Desert.
This title implies a darkish and terrifying place. This tone is the place Chu obtained his unique “darker and scarier” model of the desert. This might have positioned the place as one thing much more daunting, making the time period “strolling into your fears” make sense.
Canonically, there was nobody right reply to what this desert ought to seem like. It isn’t current within the unique Wizard of Oz, and the bounds of a dwell manufacturing go away issues as much as the creativeness within the musical. As such, the film was an opportunity for Chu and his crew to decide on visually characterize this distinctive area.
Whereas there’s not a lot element in Depraved: For Good‘s desert, the realm is just not fully forboding. Even when visually sparse, it “is just not lifeless area” as a result of it doesn’t merely swallow up Fiyero and Elphaba. They’re strolling into seeming nothing, however the portrayal permits for Chu’s intention of this representing “risk.”
This in the end places a constructive spin on one thing that might in any other case be a reasonably dour ending for Depraved: For Good. Regardless that Elphaba survives, Glinda doesn’t know, and she or he has now been pressured into hiding. Fiyero can also be ceaselessly modified. However this desert implies that being modified for good might open extra doorways.
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