EXCLUSIVE : Jon M. Chu says he “tweaked and tweaked” Wicked: For Good , the second part of his breathtaking movie musical about Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West who fled Oz, and Glinda the Good who remained. Getting the film to gleam involved bringing back stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande to film new lines for the title song and persuading a major actor to voice the Cowardly Lion.

But something unexpected floored him.

“The colors were holding us back,” he reveals, laughing loudly when we met in London following a special in-conversation session during the BFI London Film Festival.

The yellow brick road wasn’t, well, yellow enough. “No joke,” he insists. The tweaking continued until two weeks ago, the acclaimed filmmaker discloses.

“We were doing, sound of the mi

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