85 years later, Victor Fleming‘s The Wizard of Oz, the 1939 Oscar-nominated adaptation of L. Frank Baum‘s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is still widely lauded as one of the best movie musicals in history for its revolutionary setting and scale, memorable characters, and Judy Garland‘s wonderful performance. It’s no wonder it remained influential enough to inspire Gregory Maguire‘s 1995 villain-reclamation novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which achieved new heights as a widely lauded Tony-winning musical Wicked. Now, Wicked, the first part of director Jon M. Chu‘s two-part envisioning of the beloved stage classic, is finally headed to the big screen after a journey more circuitous than the Yellow Brick Road, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.