Wicked fans are furious over ‘cheap’ and ‘awful’ movie poster

Almost 1 period earlier Jon M. Chu’s movie adaptation of the deed Broadway philharmonic Wicked is owed to unfastened successful theatres, fans person slammed a promotional poster for looking ‘cheap’ and ‘bad’. 

The uproar came earlier this week aft a poster of Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo attempting to recreate the iconic 2003 poster for the theatre how, featured a fewer unfavourable changes. 

Showing Cynthia, 37, with her achromatic chapeau on, agelong acheronian hairsbreadth swept implicit her enarthrosis and greenish lipstick to compliment her greenish skin, Ariana, 32, looks to beryllium whispering successful the receptor of the prima while wearing a tiara. 

It’s a somewhat antithetic attack from the archetypal poster, which shows Elphaba with her look covered by her chapeau and a smirk implicit with agleam reddish lipstick, portion Glinda whispers successful her receptor portion wearing an all-white outfit. 

Unlike the archetypal poster, Cynthia does not look to beryllium smirking, and her look is connected afloat display. 

It’s caused upset among fans, who person taken to social media with their grievances, and immoderate person even’ fixed’ the poster to what they deliberation it should look like. 

X idiosyncratic amandagails wrote: ‘This movie has the imaginable to beryllium the ugliest movie ever created. however bash you messiness up the wicked poster this bad.’

‘I’m not the champion exertion but made this to consciousness amended astir the Wicked poster,’ different X user, Alyssa_ragni said portion sharing an representation of an edited mentation of the poster. 

Wulfsimmer added: ‘Trailer wasn’t that atrocious albeit washed retired but I hatred however downgraded the smirk is successful the poster lowkey.’

‘It looks awful. Like a look astatine the camera infinitesimal from the office. Like a implicit mockery of the archetypal smirk / consciousness of the archetypal poster. Almost similar a changeable from a cheep aboriginal 2000s disney show,’ Firebison said connected Reddit. 

Another fan, LumiereGatsby said they ‘100 percent judge this is gonna flop hard.’ 

However, not everyone was upset astir the poster and immoderate were excited. 

On X, Buffys wrote: ‘THE BEST POSTER YET. WE WILL BE WATCHING IN THEATERS.’ 

Posting each 4 promotional posters, justeuneamiee said: ‘Whoever did the wicked posters did a phenomenal job.’

The highly anticipated movie is acceptable to onshore successful UK theatres connected November 27 almost 10 years aft the movie adaption was archetypal announced successful 2016. 

Ariana stars arsenic Glinda the Good, portion Cynthia, who is conscionable an Oscar distant from becoming an EGOT winner, has taken connected the relation of Elphaba. 

Posting a representation of the poster to her Instagram stories, Ariana wrote: ‘I emotion you @cynthiaerivo and I cannot hold for the satellite to acquisition your sheer, utter magnificence successful this… I’m conscionable sayin’. I emotion you, present we go!’

Cynthia responded by resharing it connected her ain stories and said she ‘can’t hold for radical to beryllium blown away’ by Ariana and her attraction for her character. ‘What a infinitesimal successful time’, she said. 

The movie besides includes performances from Jurassic Park’s Jeff Goldblum, Everything Everywhere All At Once prima Michelle Yeoh, Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey and Game of Thrones icon Peter Dinklage. 

The formed is presently embarking connected their property tour, with Ariana acceptable to look connected Saturday Night Live tomorrow. She volition beryllium joined by Fleetwood Mac frontwoman and two-time Grammy victor Stevie Nicks, who volition play her caller single, The Lighthouse.

Wicked volition onshore successful UK cinemas connected November 27.

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