The Wizard of Oz is a pop culture classic, but beyond the best-known adaptations, many movies reimagine Oz in different ways.

‘Wicked: For Good’ retells the story of ‘The Wizard of Oz’ through the perspective of the Wicked Witch (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande), but the original film is worth watching. Wicked: For ...

Wicked: For Goodchanges the ending for several characters from The Wizard of Oz, meriting a side-by-side comparison of the two. Just a year after Jon M. Chu's Oscar-nominated Wicked made waves at ...

The musical Wicked serves as a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, but the 2024 movie adaptation doubles as an homage to the 1939 classic with several carefully placed Easter eggs. Of course, with an ...

Here's what you need to know about how the two stories intersect. The 1939 film starring Judy Garland and other interpretations of Oz, such as the '70s-era musical "The Wiz," are based on the original ...

Wicked: For Good, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as the witches of Oz, is in theaters Nov. 21 Several key scenes in 1939’s Judy Garland movie The Wizard of Oz can serve as a helpful primer ...

“Wicked,” the stage musical, took its first bow 22 years ago. The novel it’s based on, “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West,” was published in 1995. All of that happened well ...

As Jon M. Chu brought Wicked to the big screen, he made sure not only to faithfully adapt the stage musical, but also to pay homage to the film that inspired it: The Wizard of Oz. As a prequel to L.