Here’s what ‘Wicked: Part 2’ is officially being titled

nme.com:

Wicked: Part 2 is set for release on November 21, 2025, and Universal Pictures has now announced its official title.Yesterday (December 16) the official Wicked social media accounts revealed that the movie will be called Wicked: For Good.The project is named after a duet from the second act of the Stephen Sondheim and Winnie Holzman musical, originally performed by Idina Menzel’s Elphaba and Kristin Chenoweth’s Glinda, and was filmed back-to-back with the first movie.Wicked: For Good will see Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande reprise their respective roles of Elphaba and Glinda, continuing from where they left off after ‘Defying Gravity’ in the first movie.And director Jon M Chu has said that the sequel is “more relevant” to where we are “in society right now,” telling Variety: “Part Two, I will say because I’ve cut Part Two together, is a doozy. “[You’re] getting the meat.

I did not know the context of where we’d be in society right now. It becomes eight times more relevant than before when you’re talking about truth and consequences of making the right or wrong choices.

It’s intense.”A post shared by Wicked Movie (@wickedmovie)In a four-star review of the first movie, NME wrote: “Wicked flags a little in the middle, but not enough to dampen a dramatic climax in which Elphaba and Glinda travel to Oz to meet the fabled Wonderful Wizard (Jeff Goldblum).