According to the Wall Street Journal, "Wicked" Parts One and Two cost $320 million ($160 million per film). Both parts were shot back-to-back.

TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml · 9 hours ago

According to the Wall Street Journal, "Wicked" Parts One and Two cost $320 million ($160 million per film). Both parts were shot back-to-back.

eightpix@lemmy.world · 5 hours ago

Anticipating Book > Film (musical?) > Play/Musical

Hopefully, what they padded the movie with is the contents — the politics — of the book. As u/MrVilliam said above:

they took a movie-length two act play and padded it out to chop it up into two movies. And they’ll be rewarded for it. Together, they’ll gross over $1.5 billion, maybe over 2.