Wicked: For Good , the concluding half of Jon M. Chu’s two-part adaptation of the popular stage musical, gets its highly anticipated theatrical release this weekend. That means it’s time for another explainer on just how Hollywood managed to split this two-hour-30-minute Broadway production into two separate movies, both exceeding two hours in length. Last year’s Wicked installment covered the first act of the show, doubling its 90-minute runtime by expanding certain plot points, deepening the protagonists’ character arcs, drawing further from the Gregory Maguire novels on which the musical is based, and fattening the existing songs with expository lyrics, along with extended dance sequences and instrumental interludes. Wicked: For Good does much of the same for its source mate

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