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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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On the November 22, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to talk about Jon M. Chu’s newest movie, Wicked: Part 1.

In Our Feature Presentation: Wicked Review: The Broadway Musical Becomes An Overlong And Messy Movie

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Before we start, I just wanted to apologize.

0:02.6

Apparently, my microphone was not working correctly during the recording that you're about to hear, which is heartbreaking because I love this conversation so much.

0:10.6

So please stick with us if you can. I had a backup going, so at least you'll be able to hear something.

0:16.0

It's not up to the standards that I would like, honestly, but at least it's something.

0:19.9

So sorry about that again.

0:21.3

And stick with us if you can. Thanks so much for listening. And here's the episode.

0:25.6

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slashfilm Daily. Today's Friday, November 22nd, 2024. On today's

0:30.5

episode of the show, we're going to be talking about John M. Chu's newest movie, Wicked Part 1. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slashfilm.com, and I'm

0:38.2

joined on today's episode by Slashfilm editor, BJ Colangelo. Listen, if it wasn't because it's

0:43.2

really early when we're recording this, my usual high, high, hya was absolutely going to be

0:47.9

replaced by a defying gravity battle cry, but I just don't got it in me this morning.

0:53.6

I'm sorry about that, BJ. Yes, you very

0:56.2

kindly maneuvered your schedule to be able to accommodate for some work that's going on at my

1:01.2

house. So I thank you for that. And our listeners, thank you for that. Okay, so we're going to be

1:05.9

talking about this movie. Before we do that, though, BJ, before I even tell you what I thought about

1:10.1

this film, I want to sort of set the stage for what our relationship is to Wicked the musical before we saw this film.

1:18.7

And mine is pretty simple.

1:20.0

My sister loves musical theater.

1:22.2

She participated in a lot of musical theater growing up.

1:24.6

So this was a big musical for her.

1:29.7

And I want to say that I saw a traveling, like a regional production of it in like 2006 or something like that. And that's

1:36.7

really the only time that I have kind of engaged with the story. Like of course I've heard

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