Tyrion Lannister is heading to the Wonderful World of Oz. Peter Dinklage has been forged within the upcoming Broadway musical adaptation “Wicked: Part One,” it was introduced Wednesday.
Jim Orr, Universal Pictures President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution, introduced the information on Wednesday, through the company’s CinemaCon presentation in Las Vegas. Dinklage will voice Dr. Dillamond, a goat professor at Shiz University and a mentor to the musical’s protagonist Elphaba (performed within the movie by Cynthia Erivo). William Youmans originated the half on Broadway in 2003.
Dinklage is greatest recognized for his acclaimed efficiency as Tyrion in HBO drama “Game of Thrones.” For his half because the scheming political manipulator, the actor gained the Primetime Emmy Award for Oustanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a file 4 instances throughout the present’s eight seasons. Outside of “Game of Thrones,” Dinklage broke by with the 2003 indie movie “The Station Agent,” and his different credit embrace “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Death at a Funeral,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “I Care A Lot,” “Cyrano,” “She Came to Me,” and final 12 months’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” He will subsequent seem in Netflix movie “Unfrosted: The Pop Tart Story,” and can star within the comedy “Brothers” reverse Josh Brolin and the Western “The Thicket” with Juliette Lewis.
The “Wicked” movie adaptation relies on the favored Broadway musical of the identical identify, which is itself based mostly on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire, which in flip relies on the long-lasting 1900 L. Frank Baum novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Both the musical and the Maguire novel inform the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from the unique Baum e book, imagining her coming-of-age and friendship with Glinda the Good Witch. The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a e book by Winnie Holzman, was instantly profitable upon its 2003 Broadway premiere, and gained three Tony Awards. It has run repeatedly on the Gershwin Theatre within the 20 years since, and is at the moment the fourth longest-running manufacturing on Broadway.
For the movie adaptation, “Wicked” shall be divided into two components, with every movie protecting one act of the stage musical. John M. Chu directs each movies, which star Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, and Jonathan Bailey. Part One will launch on November 27, adopted by Part Two a 12 months afterward November 26, 2025.
