Wicked

Question: As a lover of Broadway musicals, I'm excited that The Producers and Rent are on their way to being movies. But I haven't heard a peep about plans to bring Wicked to the screen. It seems to be a natural –  great plot, music and stars. Have you heard any buzz?

Answer: There don't appear to be any plans in the works to adapt Wicked as a movie, which may be because everyone's waiting to see how well Rent and The Producers do at the box office. Gregory Maguire's original novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1999), was optioned in 2000 for a four-hour ABC TV-movie, but that project is officially dead.