Director Jon M. Chu on Teases 'Wicked: For Good' & 'Crazy Rich Asians' TV Series | Oscars 2025 - video Dailymotion

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'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu cheers on Cynthia Erivo as she could make history becoming an EGOT winner and teases what fans can expect from 'Wicked: For Good.' Plus, he talks about the decision to adapt 'Crazy Rich Asians' into a TV series.

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00:00Opening the show with Ariana and Cynthia performing.

00:02That's what I hear, that's what I hear.

00:03It's going to be the Super Bowl for the girls' gaze and face, for sure.

00:06I mean, what do you know?

00:08I know a lot, but I'm not going to tell you guys yet.

00:10You have to experience it for the first time, but it's going to be beautiful, it's going to be exciting.

00:15And, of course, what actors will go in front of all these actors and go perform?

00:20Like, it's a very gutsy thing, and so I'm glad that they're representing our movie tonight.

00:25Yes, and you're kind of representing Elphabud tonight.

00:27Oh, yes, a little bit, a little Emerald City.

00:29My wife is in yellow, as she's the sort of yellow brick road to my Emerald City.

00:33Oh, I love that.

00:34So we feel very, we have five kids, so without her, we wouldn't be here.

00:39I couldn't do my job, so it's been really fun.

00:41And history might be made tonight with Cynthia becoming...

00:44Come on, let's go, let's go.

00:46She deserves it.

00:47She is amazing talent.

00:49She's going to be with us for a long time.

00:52So this is just the beginning of her journey, no matter what happens.

00:55Yeah, that's right.

00:58Almost.

00:58I think it was, like, pretty close.

01:01You didn't have the mic there, though.

01:02Next time you've got to have the mic.

01:03Well, you already shot the sequel, but if you want to do more, I could copy.

01:06Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:06I like it, I like it.

01:08Okay, all right.

01:09I clocked it in there.

01:10For people that haven't seen the stage adaptation and don't know what they're going in for with

01:16a sequel, what's one thing you could tell them to expect?

01:18Because it is, it takes a turn.

01:20It takes a turn.

01:21I would say this is where Wizard of Oz and Wicked timelines intersect.

01:28I would say we come back to things that you may have seen in the first one.

01:34I think we connect a lot of dots.

01:35And the consequences of choices made in movie one are what this movie is about.

01:39And consequences often are more difficult to stay the course than when you just made

01:44a decision.

01:45So it's going to be, it's a dark one.

01:48It's a fun one.

01:49But you get into the meat now.

01:51The meat.

01:51It's dark.

01:52Now, I've been waiting for more Crazy Rich Asians for years and years and years.

01:57And then there was an announcement that you are doing a TV series.

01:59Yes, yes.

02:00We needed more real estate.

02:02Yes.

02:02That was the reality.

02:03Like, you know, we developed the movie over and over and over again.

02:06And we're still working on a version of something that I won't talk about now.

02:09But the TV landscape allowed us to use all the characters.

02:14Is it like in lieu of a sequel, the TV series?

02:16I don't know if it's in lieu of a sequel.

02:18But it felt clear that we wanted to, every character we wanted to explore needed more

02:22room.

02:22And it's just, a movie wasn't doing it for us.

02:25So, and we got to bring Adele back into the fold.

02:28And so we're starting this now.

02:30It's going to be fun.

Director Jon M. Chu on Teases 'Wicked: For Good' & 'Crazy Rich Asians' TV Series | Oscars 2025

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