Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo’s Wicked to be split into two films

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo will star in a film adaptation of blockbuster musical Wicked (PA)

The upcoming film adaptation of the blockbuster musical Wicked, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, is to be split into two movies.

The film’s director Jon M Chu announced the news in a letter shared to Instagram explaining that they had made the decision to prevent making “fatal compromises to the source material that has entertained us all for so many years”.