Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Stephen Daldry has exited as the director of Wicked, Universal’s long awaited screen adaptation of the smash hit stage musical.
Sources tell Deadline that the studio wants this movie mounted more quickly than Daldry was comfortable moving. Also, there was a shortage of stage space in London that will make it not possible to shoot the film there, something that was important to Daldry.I’m told Daldry’s exit is amicable and becomes another creative casualty of the pandemic.
Universal is back out looking for directors and it instantly becomes one of the more coveted Open Directing Assignments out there right now.
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