Shiz University: How the ‘Wicked’ Movie Built Oz’s Epic School
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variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Production designer Nathan Crowley has been waiting his entire career for a film in which he could build an entire fantasy world.
He found that with “Wicked.” When director Jon M. Chu called on him to work on “Wicked” for the film adaption of the Broadway musical, Crowley’s dream came true. “Jon wanted it to be fantastical.
He wanted it to be joyous. He wanted it to be happy, and the Emerald City had to be this magical myth of the place that everyone wanted to get the ticket to.” Shiz University is where much of the action takes place.
The theory behind it was Shiz — like Oxford, Cambridge, Ivy League universities and even Hogwarts — was that it is an ancient institution, one that few were fated to attend.
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