Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicole Kidman were just a few of the stars considered to star in a film version of Wicked in the mid-1990s. Find out who else was circling the movie.

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Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Nicole Kidman and More Actresses Considered for Wicked Movie

The “Wicked” movie is a box office powerhouse with $530 million and counting at the global box office. It’s also a critical darling, earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz for its leading ladies Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. But what if “Wicked” had originally been made decades ago with Demi Moore as the green-skinned Elphaba? […]

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Demi Moore as Elphaba? Original Plans for a ‘Wicked’  Movie in the 1990s Revealed, and ‘Whoopi Goldberg Tried Hard to Get the Rights’

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Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman, Whoopi Goldberg, Salma Hayek and more could've been cast in a 1990s 'Wicked' movie as Elphaba or Glinda.

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Demi Moore Almost Starred as Elphaba in a 1990s ‘Wicked’ Film, With Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer Top of Mind for Glinda

Imagine Moore (or Whoopi Goldberg!) in green, Robert Zemeckis directing, and no singing whatsoever. Producer Marc Platt reveals how a very different adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s novel almost happened.

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Demi Moore as Elphaba, and More Tales From the ‘Wicked’ That Never Was

A new deep dive on the origins of Wicked has revealed a number of revelations about the story's journey from the page to the stage to the screen.

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Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg Vied for WICKED Film Rights In the 1990s

Holding space for Moore as Elphaba.Getty ImagesThe Wicked movie was almost very, very different. As it turns out, long before the musical was even written, there was talk of a film adaptation of Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel. This Wicked movie would have had no songs and a completely different cast—and at the top of the potential cast list? Demi Moore as Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West.Marc Platt, who produced the new Wicked movie starring …

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Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg Were Almost Involved in a Very Different 'Wicked' Movie

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The “Wicked” movie is a box office powerhouse with $530 million and counting at the global box office. It’s also a critical darling, earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz for its leading ladies Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. But what if “Wicked” was originally made decades ago with Demi Moore as the green-skinned Elphaba? A new report from Vanity Fair dives into the first attempts to bring “Wicked” to the big scr…

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Demi Moore as Elphaba? Original Plans for a ‘Wicked’ Movie in the 1990s Revealed, and ‘Whoopi Goldberg Tried Hard to Get the Rights’

Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Whoopi Goldberg, and Salma Hayek were also all considered for parts in the Ozian spectacle.Universal Studios. Demi Moore and Cynthia ErivoWhat is this information, so sudden and new?Producer Marc Platt recently raised eyebrows by sharing in Vanity Fair the details of a big screen Wicked adaptation that could have been - before the musical had even come around. "I am going to try and get the timeline right if I c…

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Demi Moore as Elphaba? Two decades ago, 'Wicked' would've had a very different cast

Years before Wicked became a musical on Broadway, there were discussions to turn the story into a movie and it would have been so different than the musical we all love and know. “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” a novel by Gregory Maguire, was originally released in 1995 and many people in Hollywood immediately noticed the potential to adapt the story into a film. Vanity Fair has published a very interesting report t…

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If ‘Wicked’ Was Made in the 1990s: New Report Reveals Original Casting Choices & More Interesting Details  | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

“Wicked” has been a huge success for Universal Pictures, but the yellow brick road to the big screen was not an easy one. Long before it was the biggest show to hit Broadway, the movie rights to Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” were a hot commodity in late ‘90s…Read more...

Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Nicole Kidman and More Actresses Considered for Wicked Movie

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