Priests ‘roasted on spit and eaten’, date rape drugs & sex acts with TIGER – the twisted non-PG tale behind hit Wicked

THIS year’s astir anticipated blockbuster Wicked has enchanted the satellite with its superstar formed and captivating plot.

But down the massively fashionable movie musical is simply a acheronian and disturbingly graphic caller that volition daze millions arsenic it includes rape, racism, bestiality, cannibalism, orgies and adjacent kid murder.

Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz was archetypal published successful 1995 by Gregory Maguire, but it wasn’t until 8 years aboriginal that it was fixed a large overhaul to go the palatable musical, which launched connected Broadway.

However, aft speechmaking the book, The Sun tin uncover each the shocking twists and turns that person been each but airbrushed retired of the squeaky-clean theatre and cinematic versions.

It stars popular sensation Ariana Grande and British histrion Cynthia Erivo and has been fixed a PG rating, citing lone “mild menace and discrimination.”

And it is already proving to beryllium a blockbuster smash, taking astir treble the takings of Gladiator II astatine the US container office aft they were some released successful the US connected Friday.

The caller was conceived arsenic a prequel to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, which is simply a steadfast household favourite - but the publication is thing but.

One TikToker who precocious work the book, Eryn Kieffer, said: “Trigger informing for everything. If you tin deliberation of it, it’s successful here.

“My main happening is it’s not for kids. It’s really, genuinely not for children. The philharmonic is wholly good for kids. I would not accidental this publication is astatine all.”

It centres astir Cynthia’s quality Elphaba - named aft the initials of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz writer L Frank Baum - whose specified entranceway into the publication is steeped successful scandal.

While the movie suggests her greenish tegument colour arsenic the effect of her mum drinking greenish alcohol earlier sex, the archetypal crushed is acold darker.

Instead, Elphaba’s parent Melena is fixed a greenish day rape substance and is sexually assaulted by a stranger.

Once she is born, her mum hates her truthful overmuch that she has galore thoughts of murdering her and past spends years abusing and neglecting her.

At 1 constituent she tells the baby: “Shall we spell locomotion by the borderline of the water contiguous and possibly you’ll drown?

“Maybe we’ll spell retired successful a vessel and extremity over.”

Even the midwives who present the tot - and sermon astatine magnitude whether she is simply a “hermaphrodite” - are disgusted by her and talk astir sidesplitting her earlier the babe bites 1 of their fingers off.

Cannibalism and enactment clubs

In a unusual twist, her mum has different matter with a antheral who yet forms a throuple with her and her curate husband.

But adjacent distant from the main plot, determination are a slew of violative and shocking scenes.

In the archetypal fewer pages, a spiritual curate is skewered, cooked connected a spit-roast and eaten.

Then successful descriptions excessively explicit to detail, a parent and girl are described having enactment with a antheral astatine the aforesaid clip successful a bizarre puppet show.

Later, different quality is explained arsenic having tegument “the colour of s***” successful a vile racist remark.

Like the philharmonic and film, overmuch of the communicative happens erstwhile Elphaba has grown up and goes to Shiz University wherever she meets Galinda, whose sanction aboriginal changes to Glinda, played by Ariana successful the movie.

However, portion the blockbuster sees them instrumentality a travel to a tame dance, the publication shows students visiting a sordid BDSM enactment club.

In 1 passage, a dwarf is strapped to a tiger portion it performs a enactment enactment connected a bare woman, arsenic radical beryllium astir and watch.

Child marriage

And portion determination are nary mentions of enactment successful the film, Elphaba herself engages successful racy scenes successful the archetypal book.

At 1 point, she and emotion involvement Fiyero springiness each different sensual massages with lipid earlier it says she “took him deeper successful than ever before.”

That’s contempt the information Fiyero - who successful the movie is played by Jonathan Bailey - was a kid groom who was joined disconnected astatine the property of seven.

Now radical are starting to rediscover the publication and are gobsmacked astatine what they’re reading.

Content creator, Sara Ribeiro, said she loved the theatre amusement and has spent years listening to the soundtrack but couldn’t judge what she was speechmaking erstwhile she picked up the publication this year.

She explained: “It ended up being a batch darker than I thought. I would accidental wrong the archetypal 10 to 20 per cent, my jaw was connected the level aggregate times. I wasn’t expecting it to beryllium so… graphic.”

One scholar connected review website thestorygraph.com said: “I person sympathy for the writers of the musical, who had to instrumentality this root worldly and crook it into a philharmonic with a blessed ending.”

Despite the immense changes, which were made to crook it into a deed signifier amusement that has present been moving for much than 2 decades, writer Gregory Maguire said helium was blessed with the results.

American composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz pitched him the thought of transforming the publication into a philharmonic connected a locomotion a fewer years aft it was published.

Gregory recalled: “I came location and I said to myself, ‘I'm going to fto this happen, I don't attraction astir the money. This is acold much successful enactment with wherefore I wrote the publication than the movie scripts I've work truthful acold astir Wicked.'”

Referring to Stephen and the scriptwriter, helium continued: “I'm precise blessed with the mode Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz chose to archer the story.

“It made efficient, economic, and communicative consciousness for them to marque the communicative choices that they chose to do, and I applaud it completely. The play is simply a small little subtle than the caller successful immoderate ways.”

However, things could person been precise antithetic for the movie adaptation.

He revealed Demi Moore archetypal showed an involvement successful bringing it to the large surface without songs, though plans fell through.

Speaking successful 2020, helium said: “When the publication was published it astir instantly got optioned by Demi Moore and a accumulation institution she ran, which had a narration with Universal, and determination was a accidental for it to beryllium a big-budget movie astir close away, but the movie ne'er rather crystallised.”

Now with the merchandise of the movie, Wicked has go a phenomenon.

There are much than 60 marque collaborations crossed the satellite with Lego, Starbucks, Crocs, Gap, Samsung and galore much - each erasing the story’s dodgy origins.

Next November, Wicked: Part 2 volition beryllium released to tie-in the two-parter, pursuing the cliffhanger astatine the extremity of Part 1.

But don’t expect to spot immoderate of the sex, drugs and chaos of the publication successful that film, either.