I Love The Wicked: For Good Trailer, But I Think One Moment Ruins The Mystery Ahead
The 2025 film schedule has fairly a couple of returns to beloved footage of the previous, particularly with the subsequent couple months providing 28 Years Later and Jurassic World Rebirth. The former instance simply may get a little bit of a bump, as the primary trailer increasing what we learn about Depraved: For Good will in all probability be hooked up to its pre-show reel.
But as beforehand promised, tonight’s particular Depraved re-release screenings noticed the primary trailer for director Jon M. Chu’s follow-up to 2024’s smash hit unfurled. Whereas I love the outcomes, I suppose that displaying Fiyero (Jonathan Bailey) making his face flip to save lots of Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) within the Wizard’s lair feels prefer it ought to have been saved for the movie. I’d prefer to suppose hardcore Depraved followers would agree with me on that.
On the plus facet, Depraved: For Good’s anticipated tonal shift does get to shine on this first look footage. Ozcertainly feels darker and extra restrained underneath The Wizard (Jeff Goldblum) and his reign. And that close-up on the Cowardly Lion has me shopping for into that concept that the little cub Elphaba and Fiyero launch into the woods in Depraved is certainly our anxious buddy.
Which circles me again to the purpose I was making earlier. Whereas I’m nonetheless attempting to keep away from Depraved: For Good spoilers on this ridiculous year-long hole between motion pictures, I sadly know somewhat greater than I need to about Jonathan Bailey’s uniformed heartthrob.
Whereas I gained’t spoil something large right here, I completely discovered about that face flip. Even with out figuring out the precise circumstances surrounding it, Depraved 2’s large second loses its affect when proven mere seconds after a really severe trying Bailey in uniform exhibits up trying like this:
Then once more, possibly this trailer is de facto extra for promoting Depraved: For Good to hardcore followers. I imply, they dropped 007 First LIght’s announcement trailer tonight too, and for all I know, somebody is feeling this identical method about younger James Bond’s first look in that new online game.
I apologize to the entire loyal Depraved followers in tears, because the continued teasing of the pivotal track “For Good” has been occurring for a while. Tonight’s new reel of anticipation definitely performed on these emotions, in addition to digging into Cynthia Erivo’s rendition of “No Good Deed.”
Such expectations had been set final night time, because the Instagram announcement video for tonight’s occasion was in all probability a little bit of a set off. Not solely had been For Good’s costumes proven off, however we heard one other small little bit of Erivo and Grande singing that very track. Should you’re able to burn via some extra tissues, right here’s what that regarded like:
Am I excited for Depraved: For Good? After all I am. But as somebody who tries to defend watching trailers to a few of my associates who flat out keep away from them, I can now see why they’re so adversarial to such issues. Regardless, the conclusion of Depraved flies into theaters on November twenty first; simply in time for the Thanksgiving desk to speak in regards to the enormous twists that await all of Oz.
